need help to ID this crypt - Cryptocorynes

joe faria · 07-20-2009, 11:28 PM

Hi,
This crypt was labelled like being crypt moehlmanni. I got it in a emerse set up, for about 2 weeks.
The substrate consists in peat, laterite and fertile substrate of a known brand in Europe.

Do you think it's indeed crypt moehlmanni? For me it looks like crypt willisi.

Regards,
Joe Faria

hydrophyte · 07-21-2009, 06:46 PM

That doesn't look anything like moehlmanii to me.

Ghazanfar Ghori · 07-22-2009, 04:16 PM

Echinidorus species. Possibly uruguayensis.

joe faria · 07-23-2009, 10:18 AM

Hi,
Thanks to both for your replies.

Hydrophyte - it doesn't look moehlmanni to me too.

G. Ghori - I'm pretty sure it's a cryptocoryne, but the sp. I do not have any clue. The only thing I know, it came from a crypt farm in Netherlands.

Got another pic of it

Regards,
Joe Faria

rs79 · 07-25-2009, 11:19 PM

C. willissii, "lucens" cultivar.

Here's mine:

Ghazanfar Ghori · 07-28-2009, 05:39 AM

Since we have no flower to go with, can you post a close up of the leaf and petiole? Both underside and the upper surface if possible. Also a picture of the crown would help. Could very well be a crypt - just looks strange to me.

joe faria · 07-30-2009, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghazanfar Ghori

Since we have no flower to go with, can you post a close up of the leaf and petiole? Both underside and the upper surface if possible. Also a picture of the crown would help. Could very well be a crypt - just looks strange to me.

Some pics like you requested: upper and umderside

Just run out of batery in my camera, so no pic of the petiole ( about 5cm) and crown...

Regards,
Joe Faria

hydrophyte · 07-31-2009, 07:05 AM

That parallel leaf veination does suggest an Echinodorus.

rs79 · 07-31-2009, 09:40 AM

The root will tell right away if it's a crypt or an echinodorus; the latter has soft, flexible roots with no or minimal rhizome. Crypts has fragile harder roots with a noticable rhizome.

joe faria · 08-01-2009, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rs79

The root will tell right away if it's a crypt or an echinodorus; the latter has soft, flexible roots with no or minimal rhizome. Crypts has fragile harder roots with a noticable rhizome.

I will take out the plant from the pot and take a pic to show....
Thanks to all for the replies.

Regards,
Joe Faria