Cryptocoryne – Boon Hao's collection Singapore

Flowering update

May 12, 2022Posted in CryptocoryneTagged CryptocoryneLeave a comment

Cryptocoryne flowers of 2022

Cryptocoryne 2022

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022Posted in Cryptocoryne, Plant collectionTagged CryptocoryneLeave a comment

A small emersed collection update in 2022, I have choose to focus on a few species to collect since I have lesser time to maintain them now.

Some new species added to collection

October 10, 2021Posted in Cryptocoryne, Plant collection2 Comments

C. affinis
C. nurii var. raubensis
Emersed, about 1 month in.
A flower developing but got aborted in the end.
One of the rarest crypt i have obtained, C. alba
C. keei ‘green’ and ‘red’
A crypt which i haven’t seen since 2014. C. bullosa ‘black’
C. sp. natuna 8
C. hudoroi

Hopefully i can propagate and flower them in the next coming months. Also in this shipment i have C. thwaithesii but i am still waiting for them to develop before i show them.

Cryptocoryne adventure

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020Posted in Cryptocoryne, Uncategorized2 Comments

Hi all,

I finally had the chance to travel to the birthplace of Cryptocoryne. It was a long anticipated trip and i finally had the chance to do it.

Location is based on Johor, Malaysia

We definitely found a couple of species of Cryptocoryne, such as Cryptocoryne schulzei, Cryptocoryne cordata var. cordata, Cryptocoryne nurii var. nurii and lastly Cryptocoryne xpurpurea var. purpurea. There were other plants we found such as the swamp waterlily Barclaya kunstleri as well as Barclaya rotundifolia.

Fish wise it was quite limited, we only manage to see fishes such as Harlequin rasbora, Gouramis as well as some Channa snakeheads.

This trip happened in October 2019

Enjoy !

IMAG5707 — The weather was with us that day …

Puddles of water that you should avoid stepping on

IMAG5721 — Cryptocoryne cordata var. cordata growing in fast flowing stream

IMAG5742 — Cryptocoryne Nurii var. nurii

IMAG5748 — Thanks to my friend for going into the river to get the plants

IMAG5760 — Cryptocoryne xpurpurea var. purpurea growing in a low flow and muddy stream

IMAG5765 — Cryptocoryne xpurpurea var. purpurea

IMAG5791 — Only a few plants are seen due to the dry season

IMAG5810 — Same habitat as the Barclaya rotundifolia is Cryptocoryne cordata var. cordata

Thanks for viewing.

Cryptocoryne Ideii flowering / update 2019

September 1, 2019Posted in CryptocoryneLeave a comment

*My apologies if the photo quality dropped, i used my phone camera instead of my DSLR.*

Hi all, I recently fell in love with the sea and started reef keeping hence i didn’t buy any new cryptocoryne, however my friend from Malaysia manage to send me some. Looking foward, my Cryptocoryne idii flowered about 2 months ago so i thought that i should post about it here.

My friend from Malaysia also send me a few species of Crypt, hopefully i can grow them well since they are threatened by human activities in their natural habitat, will probably post about them when they grow well and flowered, stay tuned !

Some of the Crypt from Malaysia that was sent to me

Thanks a lot for reading !

Cryptocoryne with a wrong name …

December 31, 2018Posted in Cryptocoryne, Plant collectionLeave a comment

Any plant with a given name should not be trusted unless one can be sure that it is that stated species. A good example would be this. This Crypt was sold to me as Cryptocoryne Pontederiifolia ‘red lip’. At first sight, it looked like Pontenderiifolia due to the shape of the leaves, however the leaves shape was also more pointed which made me doubt its origin. I was thinking of how this differed from the pontenderiifolia i first saw. which even the leave colour was darker than this plant.

A few weeks later this plant flowered and it turned out to be very different ….

This flower marries the characteristic of the yellow Pontenderfollia flower and the tall twisted limb of the flower of a Sri Lankan species . By the time I saw the strange flower, I was confirming with myself that this is definitely not ‘red lip’.

IMAG3285 — From the top the limb looks twisted

Special thanks to Luke for helping me identifying this plant 🙂

Hence if you compare the twist of the limb and the colour of the spathe, it perfectly matches the photo hence instead of pontenderiifolia ‘red lip’ it should be pontenderiifolia x Sri Lankan species, I presume its Cryptocoryne wendtii or Cryptoocryne undulata green because of the green coloured leaf and its leaf shape. These two species of crypt is also commonly available and grown together in aquarium plant farm.

Thanks for reading !

Over and out ! 🙂

Cryptocoryne Collection (1)

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017Posted in Cryptocoryne, Plant collectionLeave a comment

It has been a year since I started collecting Cryptocoryne, some have grown, some have died, however I would treat it as a learning process so that I am able to cultivate my plants more efficiently next time.