Can anyone attempt and ID on this crypt?

[philipraposo1982]

I have 23 different crypts including green wendtii, I have lots of wendtii green and brown and I am very family with its growing patterns and sizes. This plant in the photo looks like a wendtii but its surely not a green or brown. It's grows twice as tall as a green wendtii (some leaves over 6 inches from crown to tip).

Even in shaded areas of the tank this plant shows alot more red coloration. Mostly on the underside of the leaf.

My green wendtii will have red on the leaf sometimes but only at the bottom and as you can see in the pics, this crypt shows it right through the entire leaf.

Older leaves sometimes show very dark green coloration as well.

Any ideas?

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[zozo]

Nice Crypt.. 🙂 I recently bougth a Cr. Costata because of it's red potentiels.. Still to early and to young to say some about its final size.
But looks, color and leave patern are somewhat sumilar from the pics i have seen.

Else Flowgrow has an extensive Crypt collection in their database..

 

[Mick.Dk]

There are really A LOT of variations in the Cryptocoryne wendtii - both colour- and size-wise.
A Cryptocoryne wendti 'green' is just a name given, because the leaves have, more or less, green colour; It is a variation. Therefore the ' around the name 'green'.
There are even several variations of Cryptocoryne wendtii 'green'.
- knowing this, your Crypt. would "classify" as a variety of Cryptocoryne wendtii 'green' - to differ it, you could add var tall........but this is not scientific !!
This is f.ex. done to the variety C. wendtii 'green' var. narrow. Before all that, you need a flower, to identify it is indeed a C. wendtii, though.
C. becketti 'petchi' var. pink is another example of variety in a variety.
You actually allready know this from Anubias - since allmost all commonly used are varieties of Anubias barteri ( F.ex. A. barteri var. nana - and variety in variety ; Anubias barteri var. nana var. petite).

 

[philipraposo1982]

Well the good news is that the ones I do have are mother plants with lots of babies starting to grow. Once big enough I will take a few to try and get it to flower.

Any thoughts on a simple yet effective way to grow it emersed for the purpose of flowering?

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[zozo]

You actually allready know this from Anubias

Yes indeed, i got a Ducky but there is nothing to find about it, other than it's a Barteri (Ducky).. I wonder how they came up with it's name ducky. But i gave it's name honor and growing it emersed on a piece of wood above the tank.

 

[Mick.Dk]

Well the good news is that the ones I do have are mother plants with lots of babies starting to grow. Once big enough I will take a few to try and get it to flower.

Any thoughts on a simple yet effective way to grow it emersed for the purpose of flowering?

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You can probaply grow it in a standard flower-pot, put on a saucer allways having water in it, and the top half of a large cola-bottle covering the plant to keep humidity high. At least once a day (maybe permanent) remove the cap of bottle, to "freshen up" the air inside. When planting, you should remove all submerse leaves - they will die anyway. Not to be placed in direct sun, ofcourse.

 

[philipraposo1982]

I will give it a shot, thanks.

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[philipraposo1982]

Here is one of my 3 big mother plants crown. You can see how many baby plants of coming off of just this one. Also keep in mind it is quite shaded in this area of the tank.

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[Mick.Dk]

The C. wendtii-types are well known for producing a lot of off-spring right next to mature rosette - just like your pic. - so this add to the idea, that your plant is a C. wendtii, of some type.
If you ever pull plant out, you will probaply notice a lot of quite small, pointed "pieces of root" falling off very easy......those are the actual off-spring, and will grow new plants where they fall on the substrate of tank (in the "good old days" those were how we made new plants in the nursery 😉 ).