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Author:  Frank M. Greco
Title:  Plants unsuitable for Aquaria
Summary:  "Basic Rule of Thumb: If it looks like a houseplant it probably is and has no place in your aquarium." Frank provides a long list of actual names of plants that are sometimes sold as aquatics but really are not.
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Date first published: 1997
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Plants Unsuitable for Use in Aquaria

by Frank M. Greco, AnimalForum.com staff
From Frank's Aquarium.com
Copyright 1997 by Frank M. Greco.  Reprinted with permission.
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Acorus sp. (Japanese rush)

Aglaonema sp. (Kelantan swordplant)

Aglaonema sp (silver queen)

Aglaonema simplex

Alternanthera bettzickiana "aurea"

Alternanthera bettzickiana "red"

Alternanthera bettzickiana "green"

Bamboo sp.

Caladium sp.

Calamus sp. (coconut plant)

Calamus sp. (bamboo plant)

Chlorophytum bichetti

Cordyline sp.

Chamaedorea elegans (palm tree)

Cyperus alternifolius

Dieffenbachia sp. (dumb cane)

Dracaena sp.

Fittonia argyronanta (nerve plant)

Gymnocoronis sp.

Hemigraphis repanda (dragon's tongue)

Hemigraphis colorata (purple ruffle)

Houuttuynia cordata

Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)

Lycopodium sp. (underwater pine tree)

Ophiopogon sp.

Peliosanthes sp.

Pontederia cordata (pickrel rush)

Schismatoglottia sp.

Selaginella wildenowii (fern)

Spathophyllum sp. (peace lily)

Syngonium sp.

Plus emergent forms of the following:

Alternanthera sessilis, lilacina, cardinalis, reineckii and ocipus

Ammania gracilis

Echinodorus sp. (swordplants)

Nomphila

Heteranthera zosterafolia

Hygrophila

Ludwigia

Marseilea (four leaf clover)

I'm sure I've missed a few plants as well. Basic rule of thumb:

If it looks like a houseplant, it probably is and has no place in your aquarium.

For another viewpoint on this, go to:
Terrestrial Plants Sold as Aquatics, by Vlad Franco-Valias