ID for salvinia please?

[chris_cotton23]

hello everyone!i started with a handful of floating plants but now it is covered over of 75% and i want to sell some on ebay but i am trying to identify a salivinia!
can you tell me what plants can you see in the photo please?
i know that i have "Amazon Frogbite" -- "Salvinia MInima"---" Phyllantus Fluitans" but
i can't find the other one (less green)!
any help would be more than appreciated!!

thank you very much!🙂

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/8vjmb6vgp5evi0p/AACh7d-QPHjiVPWfyqDHTBV_a

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/k4wklbqzun8mkhs/AAAijUMlvpxCMoQ5saqNdDRqa

 

[Crossocheilus]

Could be salvinia cucullata, I had a salvinia in my tank a while ago that looked just like that.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Could be salvinia cucullata

That would be my suggestion as well, but you need to look at the sporocarps (not all species produce these) and the shape of the leaf hairs to get a definitive ID.

This is Salvinia auriculata group (hairs like "egg whisks"). From (<http://dnr.state.il.us/stewardship/cd/biocontrol/2floatingfern.html>)



cheers Darrel

 

[Mick.Dk]

To be honest - if you are not certain of species.....you would be doing everyone a favour, selling it as "Salvinia unknown species"
- falsely ID'ed plantnames have a nasty habit of getting spread, bringing confusion!!
No offence intended.........🙂

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

To be honest - if you are not certain of species.....you would be doing everyone a favour, selling it as "Salvinia unknown species"
- falsely ID'ed plantnames have a nasty habit of getting spread, bringing confusion!!
No offence intended.........🙂

I think you are right and you would have to be a brave person to put a definitive name to any Salvinia plant.

I'd be very surprised if the name and plant are matched for any of the species in the hobby.

Mine have the whisk shaped hairs, so I call them Salvinia "auriculata group". I know they are all the same, but the plants have amazingly different morphology dependent upon growing conditions.

Details in this thread <"Utricularia gibba has flowered">.

cheers Darrel

 

[chris_cotton23]

hello guys and thank you so much for your help all of you!
my suggestion would be salvinia cucullata as well but as dw 1305 said they can be different on different growing conditions.
when i bought them they sold me as salvinia natans but on the go realized that i have two type of salvinia and non was natans!it is good though because the one that we don't know, i like it more...😉

i will sell it as "Salvinia unknown species"(thanks Mick )but i will write salvinia minima at least(because we know it..haha!!

if anyone thinks something else is more than welcome!

thanks again guys!!