Need A Couple Of Plant Identifications

[Jen_S]

I bought 2 plants at the lfs this last weekend. One was id'ed as a temple plant and the other was a giant hygros or hydros (can't remember which)

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This is the temple plant with reddish stems and green leaves. I've never seen it before and I am look for the scientific name to research.

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This is the giant hygros or hydros. Once again I'm looking for the scientific name. It has very long spiky leaves.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide

 

[DevUK]

Doing a search on "Temple Plant" gives Hygrophila corymbosa, also know as Giant Hygro. Its quite red now which I think is its emersed leaves. You might find they will die off and then new leaves will grow. Either that or they'll fade to green.

Not sure about the other one Looks like another type of Hygrophila maybe?

 

[Jen_S]

Thanks, My guess is that it is the narrow leaf variety (there were two on the tropica.com site)

http/www.tropica.com/default.asp

Like this.
I looked at the other hygrophila plants on tropica's site and none of them really struck me as being the one that was sold as the giant hygros (they were also in different tank so I didn't confuse them for names

 

[DevUK]

Do a google image search for "Hygrophila" and see what you get:

http/images.google.co.uk/images?q=Hygrophila