List of Cryptocoryne spp.

**juilian75** · 30th Aug 2005, 12:35

More than 70 types of Crypts ...and more yet to be discovered.

How to collect all and maintain them??

C. affinis
C. alba
C. albida
C. annamica
C. aponogetifolia
C. auriculata

C. beckettii
C. bogneri
C. bullosa
C. ciliata
C. cognata
C. consobrina

C. cordata var. cordata
C. cordata var. diderici
C. cordata var. grabowskii
C. cordata var. zonata
C. coronata
C. crispatula var. balansae

C. crispatula var. crispatula
C. crispatula var. flaccidifolia
C. crispatula var. sinensis
C. crispatula var. tonkinensis
C. cruddasiana
C. decus-silvae

C. dewitii
C. edithiae
C. elliptica
C. ferruginea
C. fusca
C. griffithii

C. hudoroi
C. ideii
C. jacobsenii
C. keei
C. lingua
C. longicauda

C. minima
C. moehlmannii
C. nevillii
C. nurii
C. pallidinervia
C. parva

C.pontederiifolia
C. Xpurpurea nothovar. borneoensis
C. Xpurpurea nothovar. purpurea
C. pygmaea
C. retrospiralis
C. schulzei

C. scurrilis
C. sivadasanii
C. spiralis var. spiralis
C. spiralis var. cognatoides
C. striolata
C. thwaitesii

C. Xtimahensis
C. uenoi
C. undulata
C. usteriana
C. vietnamensis
C. villosa

C. walkeri
C. wendtii
C. Xwillisii
C. versteegii
C. yujii
C. zukalii

**barmby** · 30th Aug 2005, 12:40

Oh Crypt fans! Just like some who go ga-ga over moss

**lorba** · 30th Aug 2005, 13:53

its quite impossible... unless you dedicate time, effort and money.

I have these in my personal collection, all emersed

uenoi
yujii
ferruginea
coronata (emersed, 6months)
aponogetifolia (emersed, 6 months)
wendtii tropica (easy)
wendtii green gecko
cordata var blassii
griffthii
parva
nurii
affinis
costata
tonkinesis

**bclee** · 30th Aug 2005, 14:51

I love crypts too. But I have a small tank and only have the following.

C. albida
C. grifithii
C. pontederiifolia
C. undulata
C. wendtii "brown"
C. wendtii "green"
C. wendtii "tropica"

All the above a quite common and easy-to-grow crypts though.

BC

**bullosa** · 4th Sep 2005, 10:08

Crypts are very nice to plants and definately easier to maintain and manage then most stem plants. To collect all of them, that is not easy. LOL.

**jakey** · 6th Sep 2005, 23:26

in order to collect all the different crypts, u must be willing to spent the money to get them. with $$ anything is possible

**kirana1** · 27th Nov 2006, 10:54

C. affinis
C. alba
C. albida
C. annamica
C. aponogetifolia
C. auriculata

C. beckettii
C. bogneri
C. bullosa
C. ciliata
C. cognata
C. consobrina

C. cordata var. cordata
C. cordata var. diderici
C. cordata var. grabowskii
C. cordata var. zonata
C. coronata
C. crispatula var. balansae

C. crispatula var. crispatula
C. crispatula var. flaccidifolia
C. crispatula var. sinensis
C. crispatula var. tonkinensis
C. cruddasiana
C. decus-silvae

C. dewitii
C. edithiae
C. elliptica
C. ferruginea
C. fusca
C. griffithii

C. hudoroi
C. ideii
C. jacobsenii
C. keei
C. lingua
C. longicauda

C. minima
C. moehlmannii
C. nevillii
C. nurii
C. pallidinervia
C. parva

C.pontederiifolia
C. Xpurpurea nothovar. borneoensis
C. Xpurpurea nothovar. purpurea
C. pygmaea
C. retrospiralis
C. schulzei

C. scurrilis
C. sivadasanii
C. spiralis var. spiralis
C. spiralis var. cognatoides
C. striolata
C. thwaitesii

C. Xtimahensis
C. uenoi
C. undulata
C. usteriana
C. vietnamensis
C. villosa

C. walkeri
C. wendtii ( red , green, Mi-Oya)
C. Xwillisii
C. versteegii
C. yujii
C. zukalii
C Red Jambi

all that i make it red is my collection

i agree that its not easy to keep so many species,

**wks** · 27th Nov 2006, 12:45

Maybe we can ask the Botanic Garden to start a cryptocoryne collection. Then all the cryptofanatics can go there and drool.

**XnSdVd** · 27th Nov 2006, 14:00

Question, is C. pontederiifolia native to singapore? I seem to find them alot during nature walks.

**|squee|** · 27th Nov 2006, 16:10

C. Xtimahensis is from Singapore right? Only extinct or something like that?

**Ah_ZhaN** · 27th Nov 2006, 16:28

WAH lorba...How you keep ur tokinesis alive ???? Mine keeps melting until gone.

**kirana1** · 27th Nov 2006, 16:40

i put the toninensis in a small green house, right now i still have a problem when i put under water

**wks** · 27th Nov 2006, 17:17

Originally Posted by XnSdVd

Question, is C. pontederiifolia native to singapore? I seem to find them alot during nature walks.

Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia is not our native plant, most likely from aquarium trade. Do look out for Cryptocoryne ciliata, according to the Singapore Red Data Book of Threatened Plants, this plant is extinct in our natural environment.

Originally Posted by |squee|

C. Xtimahensis is from Singapore right? Only extinct or something like that?

Cryptocoryne Xtimahensis can only be found in Singapore. The plant's only known habitat is somewhere in our nature reserve. Please do not collect the plant, thats illegal.

**|squee|** · 27th Nov 2006, 18:12

I see, thanks for the information. Cool to have Singapore's very own crypt

Hope this is not off topic, but other than C. griffithii, C. Xtimahensis and C. ciliata, what else can/could have been found in Singapore?

**Puffer** · 27th Nov 2006, 18:24

Hi, what about this crypt called C. cordata rosanervig? Heard it's very rare. Anyone has this? I got some small crypts but not too sure their actual names...Hope someone can help id for me in my new thread later tonight.

**bossteck** · 27th Nov 2006, 18:25

Originally Posted by wks

Do look out for Cryptocoryne ciliata, according to the Singapore Red Data Book of Threatened Plants, this plant is extinct in our natural environment.

Did a search on google.
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/Cry...y/cil/cil.html
Apparently, someone named Chan took photos of ciliata (if that's what it is) in Upper Thomson area.

My view is, unless you see yourself as an expert grower, try to leave those plants that are endangered/threatened alone. If you try to collect it on your own, it may not make it in your home, if you try to buy it, you will fuel the demand, drive up the prices (if many of us do it) pushing the plants further into endangerment. You should get them only if you're confident it will survive under your care, and you can, hopefully propagate it.

**XnSdVd** · 27th Nov 2006, 20:59

I'm already tearing my hair out with C. griffithii. And since the C. pontederiifolia have yet to flower i have no idea what species it really it. I might have ciliata without knowing it. As for C. timahensis, i'm sure if you beg NUS enough they'll sell you one of their specimens...

I've got an interesting theory on how it got there though. If i'm not mistaken, the 2 parent plants are found in Johor, not singapore. And in Singapore, it's only found by a small man-made dam in Bukit Timah, constructed by the Japanese in WWII. Now, lets ask outselves, what do NS men find between their boot soles? Mud!

And we all know how hardy the Cryptocoryne rhizome is. So isn't it logical to assume that during their push down malaysia into singapore, a Japanese soldier managed to step on both of the 2 parent plants, transport them all the way down to Singapore, and then, dislodged them as he washed his boots in the stream?

Then the 2 rhizomes somehow managed to grow and flower, their close proximity meant the chances of a hybrid were increased. And BANG! timahensis was born. As for the parents i guess they got eaten after their flowers turned to fruits?

**budak** · 27th Nov 2006, 21:55

Have you considered the more probably possibility that long long ago there was no such thing as the Straits of Johor? Well, to be exact, what is now the straits would have been occupied by a river of varying breadths fed by tributaries from both 'johor' and 'singapore'.