Rosettes, Bulbs, and Ground Cover Plants
Cryptocoryne beckettii
Cryptocoryne beckettii
Photo: Jan D. Bastmeijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature20–28 °C
- pH6–8
- Adult size20 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Araceae
- Origin
- Sri Lanka
- Size
- 10 – 20 cm
- Temperature
- 20 – 28°C
- pH
- 6.0 – 8.0
- GH
- 2 – 15 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- low – medium
- CO2
- Not required
- Fertilization
- low (tablets in the substrate)
- Growth
- slow
- Position
- mid-shot
- Propagation
- stolons
Notes: Olive-green leaves with a coppery underside. Like all Cryptocorynes, it may “die back” after a sudden change but will sprout again in a few weeks.
