Plant Id

[ender2811]

Would appreciate Ids for these 3 plants.

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[BigTom]

Well they’re all crypts. I’m no expert (and 100% IDs normally need the plants to flower), but looks like C. nevillii, C. parva and one of the many C. wendtii varieties, probably ‘tropica’.

[Senor Bastardo]

I´ll have to agree with you Tom. Pic 2 and 3 are definetely C. parva and C. wendtii.

I really like parva even if it takes forever to grow, even by crypt standards.

[ender2811]

Yea its one of my favorites. The pic is a little older so its a lot bushier now, just no runners as of yet.

[unissuh]

I don’t think the first is nevillii, the leaves are too thin. albida perhaps?

[ender2811]

From pics on the web it looks like nevilli to me.

A lot of albida photos seem to show wrinkled leaf edges and redish stems.

[unissuh]

Maybe, has the right leaf tilt and color, but have never seen a nevillii with such thin leaves. I think mine are at least twice as wide as yours appear to be, maybe 3-4 times the thinner ones.

Not all albida show the same coloration – there are a bunch of cultivars of this one and some are greener than others, I think ‘costata’ is bright green. What doesn’t look quite right for albida IMO is the way the leaves all tilt outwards, usually they’re more erect.

[ender2811]

Maybe different growth conditions explain the difference in leaf size. Mine has been letting out leaves which are smaller than the ones it was planted with.

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