Flowers of my Cryptocoryne collection / field trip - Page 4 - Cryptocorynes

illumbomb · 05-11-2009, 07:50 AM

Visit my collection? I live in Singapore!

C. ferruginea 'Sungai Kerait' - a newly flowered spathe, finally after more than 1 year of cultivatation

illumbomb · 05-14-2009, 08:13 PM

C. cf. nurii 'Bintan' - again, the cultivated spathe lacklustre and the limb rots easily, just 1 day after blooming

illumbomb · 06-05-2009, 11:23 AM

C. keei 'West Kalimantan' - the spathe in its natural habitat

illumbomb · 06-06-2009, 10:00 AM

C. cordata 'West Kalimantan' - in its natural habitat, but I am not able to identify which C. cordata variety this specimen belongs to

illumbomb · 06-10-2009, 10:24 AM

C. fusca 'West Kalimantan' - an unopened spathe in its natural habitat

illumbomb · 06-25-2009, 04:03 AM

C. cf. ferruginea 'West Kalimantan' - the spathe in its natural habitat (I am using "cf." as I am not 100% sure whether I identified the species correctly)

illumbomb · 06-25-2009, 07:58 AM

C. pontederiifolia 'Singapore' - an old photograph of the first wild spathe I found

illumbomb · 06-25-2009, 08:02 AM

C. wendtii 'cultivated' - an aquarium strain which I cultivated emersed in a flooded flower pot and it bloomed

hydrophyte · 06-25-2009, 11:03 AM

Nice work. Thanks again for these fascinating photos. Please keep them coming.

I really have to work on this idea that I have for a biotope with emersed crypts in a shallow tank in very shallow water, to emulate so many of these biotope shots that you have of the plants growing in just a few cm of water in shallow streams or forest pools. It would look so cool to have the plants with their leaves just below the surface, but the spathe emerging up into the air.

illumbomb · 07-05-2009, 05:00 PM

C. cordata var. cordata 'Rompin, Pahang' - spathe of C. cordata (should be var.cordata since it was found in Peninsula Malaysia?) in its natural habitat