I just got back from a late lunch at the conservatory next to the capitol to snap some Dieffenbachia and orchid pix for Marlene. While I was heading from the jungle room to the orchid room I saw these 3 6-inch bulb pans lined up on the wall with emersed growth Crypt. wendtii. Growing in standard peat/bark/perlite based commercial potting soil. Not sitting in water, no bog garden, just sitting there as any normal house plant would. I was amazed!
Pictures to come.
Cheers.
Jim
Crypt wendtii at the U.S. Botanic Gardens conservatory
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It's one of the reasons I love crypts and feel like with joining this hobby I'm now enjoying them from another angle... While I don't think it was wendtii I have grown at least one crypt on a light stand with some of my other tropical plants in the same conditions. Did pretty well once acclimated and kept watered... they do awesome in rainforest frog tanks in similar mixtures with higher humidity, and of course are up there with anubias as the plants of choice for the areas too wet for true terrestrials! I love these plants...
Best, Corey
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