Plant ID

[Mr Burns]

What is the red plant in this picture? My first guess was ludwigia arcuata...
I'm going for a similar "swamp" look in my upcoming tank using a lot of bolbitis, narrow leaf java fern, moss, anubias, crypt. balansae, echinidorus tenellus, etc... that rust red is a great accent!

 

[TankGirl]

That could be it, or lobelia cardinalis is another possibility.

 

[Guest]

It's not Lobeila. It has much larger leaves than that. The picture is not that clear so it could be any number of things but Lobeila is not one of them.

 

[Mr Burns]

now the picture isn't showing up at all for me, their server might be down. i can't think of what else it could be besides l. arcuata. it's a little too red to be l. brevipes, which tends to have a little more orange.

 

[savga]

My guess is rotala indica.

 

[betowess]

Eric, A wild guess is its flowering (inflorescence) Eusteralis stellata under very high light. Check out the cover of Kasselmann and on page 292 of her book. But its just a wild guess. Bob

 

[malkore]

doesn't look like rotala indica to me...not growing the right way...and too solid a red color.