Cryptocoryne mutation
May 15th, 2009
Every so often, I see excited posts online from a newish Cryptocoryne collector showing pictures of an immature spathe – which sometimes turns out to be just a new leaf unfurling. Its an understandable mistake as sometimes the new leaves do look a little like a immature spathe.
A few weeks ago, I was peering into my Cryptocoryne setup and saw a spathe – wait no – thats a leaf – wait sec…what the heck is that thing?!
It appears to be something between a leaf and a spathe. It certainly has some spathe structures on it. The kettle is present, as is something that represents a tube. The ‘leaf’ part is where the limb of the spathe would be.
Some kind of mutation! Weird. Anyway – it was freaky enough to be worth posting here about.
Looks more as a malformation for me.
Every way, spathe is a kind of modified leaf….