Banana Lily

[morphlizard]

Every time that I clean the filter pad of my pond skimmer I get a few small new tubers of Banana Lily. These look remarkably similar the “Banana Plants” found in the aquarium trade and in fact are of the same genus, Nymphoides. The difference is that these ones have long stems and the leaves will reach the surface as you would expect from a Lily. It has tiny 5 petal white flowers and I am waiting to see if they will bloom in the aquarium. In the pond it can grow as a floating plant or planted. This plant is commonly referred to as Floating Heart or Banana Lily.

I thought I would throw a few in my tank (instead of the trash) and have found that they grow quickly. Instead of having short carpet plants in the foreground in my little (26 bow) planted tank I am trying these for now.

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[schance]

very kool

[morphlizard]

I just cleaned out my pond skimmer this morning. This is what the tubers look like:
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[fishlady]

if you get too many over there morph i will gladly rehome a few of them for you........seeing that you live in my area......)

[morphlizard]

Sure. I am bringing some to the Betta meeting on Sunday which is not far from us. Or you are welcome to come by on Saturday as I will be working on the pond. If all else fails we can plan a field trip to watch RA eat something

[fishlady]

i have a fishing date on saturday......)
but you just let me know and RA will be happy to show you how he tears up his food.......

[wesleydnunder]

Morph, I put a banana plant in my discus tank a few years ago...the regular banana plant you get at the LFS. When I finally got rid of it, it had 15 pads floating on top and was shading half the tank. I'd get the adventitious pups on the leaves every couple months and traded several dozen to different folks. I don't think I'll get another for that tank--lol

Mark