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Charlie Drew's "Giant Red Crypt"
Charlie Drew's "Giant Red Crypt"
Shirley's Aquatics 1950s/60s importation of C. "grandis"

Charlie obtained this plant from Shirley's Aquatics in England in the 1950's and has been maintaining it ever since. I first saw the plants in 1974 or 5 and for 3/4 of my life I would see, every time I went to Charlie's, a 50 gallon tank in the shape of a cube full of only these plants. Charlie sent me this pics this morning, and it looks to me like he's moved a few to his 100gal display tank. This tank is 20" tall.

Jan D. Bastmeijer writes:

"I checked the catalogues of the firm on this plant, as far as I know they issued the 'Manual of aquarium plants' in 1960 and a bigger one in 1967 (also translated into German). Perhaps there are earlier releases (who knows?). It are remarkable books with an amazing content including drawings. Fantastic.

C. grandis is mentioned in the 1967 edition, not in the 1960 one. The plant should originate from Borneo, what is not of much help. C. grandis is ever described by Ridley who found the plant near Matang in Sarawak (the former British Borneo). These plants are known today (life),have such size and are regarded as C. cordata var. grabowskii. The type of the latter however grows north of Banjarmasin in Kalimantan,the Indonesian part of Borneo. Recently, more C. cordata like plants are found in Kalimantan, some also with a leafblade of a man's hand size. As usual in Cryptocoryne, its a complex matter. From the very South of Thailand, near Narathiwat, also a C. cordata of this size is found a couple of years ago."

Richard Sexton, December 2004

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