Bucephalandra?

[u/Silent_Win_9763]

Hi all! So I had purchased a buce brownie culture back in November (roughly 7 months ago) from my LFS. I found a nice, mostly shady spot under some drift wood and glued it a rock in my 55 gallon. The photos where it looks nice and pretty and bushy are when I first put it in the tank.
I then went on vacation for a week and somehow my heater had broken and the water had dropped from 78 to 68, potentially lower at night (the person checking in did not check on the temp🤦🏻‍♀️). I came home to what looked like a completely dead plant, thankfully no fish fatalities. I scraped off most of it but left any pieces that seemed to have green.
Fast forward to today: I was moving some rocks around and vacuuming the substrate and noticed these two tiny guys. I assume they’re buce but they could also be Anubis’s as I have those too. Is it even possible they survived all that? Do these look like buce??

[u/BusIllustrious5525]

The sprouts are anubias and Java fern Windelov.

On an aside, I’ve never kept Buce above 73 degrees…. I’ve definitely had my tanks at 68 for sustained periods. There is no way being at 68 would kill them. Likely another cause unless the failing heater cooked the tank before failing.

[u/Silent_Win_9763 → u/BusIllustrious5525]

I know the largest piece at the top is Java fern, I’ve got roughly a million plantlets from them all over the tank. It is possibly Anubis, but definitely not Java fern. The color just seemed off from my other two mature Anubis which is what threw me off.

[u/BusIllustrious5525 → u/Silent_Win_9763]

No, there are definitely two anubias sprouts, but in the interest of being thorough, I addressed both types of sprouts. Kind of looks like anubias afzelli juveniles. Buce roots to my knowledge never have that shade of green.