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Post by parker002 on Jul 12, 2013 23:04:07 GMT -5
One of my crypts has an odd looking stem growing straight up the middle. It totally looks like it's going to flower.
I've been keeping these things for a couple years and some of them have gotten very large but this is the first time I've ever seen them flower. Pretty much every picture I've seen on the Internet until now shows them as flowerless clusters.
I'll see if I can get a pic and post it.
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Jul 13, 2013 11:13:28 GMT -5
Nope not me. For sure take a picture!
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Post by parker002 on Jul 16, 2013 8:47:36 GMT -5
Unfortunately, it appears the "bloom" has shriveled up and subsequently disintegrated before I could get a picture. It looked something like this:  |
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Post by Carl on Jul 16, 2013 9:39:15 GMT -5
A have not kept many crypt wendtiis over the years and I cannot recall any of these flowering.
However it is interesting I came back from my LA business trip to this thread, as a vivarium set up at an importer of marine and freshwater fish I visited had one with these same blooms above the water level.
This tank also had TMC LEDs on it; if I recall it had a GroBeam 600 and a couple of Mini 400s.
I do not recall these being much more of a flower than your picture you posted.
Carl
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Post by parker002 on Jul 16, 2013 14:17:20 GMT -5
I wonder if that's why it didn't fully flower? I wonder if it shot up and when it failed to reach out of the water, it just kind of rotted away?
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Post by Carl on Jul 16, 2013 16:20:45 GMT -5
What I have seen does not appear to be much more than the picture you posted; not a "flower" in a more traditional sense.
Carl
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Post by parker002 on Jul 17, 2013 17:37:40 GMT -5
Right, it's more like a hollow tube. Mine never "unfurled" though. At first, I thought it was a new leaf but it was obvious fairly early on that it was different than just a regular leaf. It grew straight up for a couple of days and then just disintegrated.
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Jul 17, 2013 18:16:47 GMT -5
It's kinda looks like a insect eating plant. I know it's not one, but the way it opened up. Can't remember what they are called. I've never seen these flower either.
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Post by parker002 on Jul 18, 2013 7:43:56 GMT -5
You're thinking of a pitcher plant and you're totally right, it does kind of look like that.  |
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