Ian Holdich
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Anyone seen this anywhere?? i'm not sure how it would fit into a scape, but i would love to try some...
As long you don't bury the rhizone and only the roots they will do finestuworrall said:never seen that one Ian. odd that an Anubias is planted into the ground as well as they dont usually like it?
It might turn green if it is just etiolated <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiolated>, but this looks like it really doesn't have any chlorophyll. So, it isn't really even a cultivar, it is what we call a "sport", a mutant shoot that grows out with-out the ability to produce chlorophyll. As such it can't live as an independent entity, but only as a "parasite" on the rest to the plant. You get this sort of thing a lot more with plants than you do with animals.so it wouldn't stay white Darryl?? is it just a cultivar??
It is, and it does have a small amount of chlorophyll.As "alba" is just the latin word for white. Couldn't this just be Anubias "white".
The last picture is what a healthy White anubias looks like over time. The real white Anubias have very little Chl a, mostly from limiting the NO3. This is not that hard to grow emergently like this. Most of these coming in are all emergent grown, they will insist otherwise, but it's simply not true.
Anyone seen this anywhere?? i'm not sure how it would fit into a scape, but i would love to try some...