wls

Thanks a lot for sharing those pictures. I was wondering if you could help me to confirm whether the crypt I have is Cryptocoryne wendtii.










I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

wls

...The leaves:

illumbomb

Hi wls,

I believe what you have there is from the aponogeton genus and not a cryptocoryne. However, I am not sure which species of aponogeton it belongs to.

Regards,
T S Wang

wls

Hello,

Thank you for your quick reply. Originally the plant was small with small leaves, but then really took off and start growing pretty fast. Thank you for identifying it for me. I have another aponogeton plant and it looks different from that one.
I found a similar plant with flower that looks identical to the one I have on another web site: http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Decor%20Aponogeton.htm .

Thank you for your help!

miremonster

@ illumbomb:
Excuse me for hijacking -
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/IMG_0669.jpg
Nice plants in the background! Looks like a Melastomataceae!

Heiko Bleher

Hi guys,

this is Heiko Bleher and I wanted to let you all know, that I was recently in a beautiful small creek, almost untouched, in peninsula Malaysia and saw plenty of Cryptocoryne cf, affinis, growing by the thousands in that creek.

As some of you may not know, but besides my fish-collecting all my life, I am born into the pioneer family of aquarium-plants. My grendfather, Adoilf Kiel, started 1887 when he saw that no one uses aquatic vegetation for their gold-fish-bowl or those first glas-aquariums built... by 1900 he had the largest aquarium plants nursery in the world with 32 green houses in Frankfurt germany and exported all over the world...

Have alook at my website and also the new book of my mother,
Iténez - River of Hope,
which is the aquarium-plant richest river in the world (positively) and my mother discovered it and collected 60 plus of the most well known aquarium plants today in the hobby there (and I was a kid than helping... collecting fishes and plants...).
http://www.aquapress-bleher.com/inde...id=3&Itemid=40

best regards to you all,

always

Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com

illumbomb

C. sp. 'Singkep 3' - I felt that the spathe looked like that of C. schulzei but my friend felt that the female flower looked like that of C. xtimahensis instead. Whichever it is, it proved that such species are more widely distributed that what we currently know (i.e. in Johor / Singapore).

illumbomb

C. bullosa 'Pakan' - The spathe had to be dug out in order for the entire spathe to be phtographed as the specimens are all deeply rooted with only the limb of the spathe sticking out of the substrate.


C. bullosa 'Sungai Seblak' - a well known location for C. bullosa

hydrophyte

More amazing pictures from illumbomb. Thanks for posting these!

Feng yu zhe

How are you, illumbomb
Cryptocoryne that shares you here is very beautiful.