Sir_BlackhOle

Every time I try to post here it says I have reached my quota.

tanVincent

C.Lucens

http://www.gratiola.com/cryptocoryne/lucens.jpg


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Vincent

HeyPK

Here are the promised pictures of my C. wendtii varieties:
1. Medium sized green with some brown. The center plant

2. Large brown wendtii, picture 1. This is the plant to the right. In the center is a smaller brown variety, which I no longer have.



3. large brown wendtii, picture 2. Here the plant has reached full size. It is growing in a 55 gallon tank. The little holes in the leaves are due to potassium deficiency.


4. Red wendtii? This is the small plant in the lower left. It probably can get a lot larger.




5. The small green wendtii I got from Gnome.

travis

I'm currently growing several varieties of crypts submersed as well:

C. wendtii (Red, Tropica, and Green Gecko vars)
C. affinis
C. blassii
C. longicauda
C. nurii

My wendtii are doing the best of all of them (no surprise there) and I had one Red put out a spathe a few weeks ago, although it was short-lived. Several of them are still recovering from a BGA outbreak I had while on vacation but should be coming back strong soon, so I will post pics when they get better. Great idea, I'm anxious to compare photos.

HeyPK

Travis, Does your red wendtii look like my red wendtii? Do any other of your wendtii varieties look like mine? What I want to do is get together as many wendtii varieties as posssible, grow them in close proximity together, and then photograph them. This way I should be able to confirm whether or not they are, indeed, different from each other as well as get started on a collection of photographs that should be helpful in differentiating the varieties circulating around.

tsunami

That small green form is none other than wendtii x hybrid. It looks very beautiful in that photo -- it is my favorite out of the group. None of your wendtii varieties are very reminescent of mine:

wendtii 'red' -- variable, generally gigantic form with very upright leaf structure under low to moderate lighting. Looks much like the wendtii 'red' pictured in the Plant Finder by gnatster.

wendtii 'green' -- green form which is very reminescent of your wendtii x hybrid except that it is orders of magnitude larger.

wendtii 'Tropica' -- most abberrant wendtii variety, staying smaller than all of my other plants, producing bronze colored bullate foliage.

wendtii 'Mi Oya' -- very similar in appearance to wendtii 'red', but seems to have a stiffer upright structure, duller coloration, and more textured foliage.

I've also tried a wendtii 'rose' which had a very pink-brown color and never grow taller than 2-3 inches! I no longer have this variety, but would like to have it again.

Carlos

HeyPK

I'd like to get my hands on those varieties that differ from mine so that I can get as many wendtii varieties as possible growing in one tank for photography. I can trade or pay. I can bring maybe 2 plants of my red variety, 5 or 6 little plants of the wendtii x hybrid, and 3 plants each of my large brown and medium green-brown varieties to the AGA convention for trade. I can also bring a bunch of Nymphoides sp. taiwan for trade.

aquaverde

In the lower left corner is C. pygmaea. Stay low and go to the right just past the Anubias in the center is C. petchii. Above the petchii is red wendtii, the few tall leaves parallel to the driftwood. On the left above the pygmaea and Anubias are blassi (oval leaves) and spiralis (long thin leaves that go to top of pic). On the shelf to the right, starting low and all the way to the right are some form of willisii, I believe, There also may be some green wendtii in there. The thin fluted leaves above that is balansae.

Gomer

The willisii looks to be wilisii "Lucens"

aquaverde

I wish I knew enough to confirm that. There's more to know about willisii and x willisii than I pretend to know. On top of that, I have bought some completely unidentified green crypts with long petioles that might be some form of willisii as well.

How is Kasselmann on crypt id'ing?