Choose your pot size
- Standard (5cm pot)
- XL (9cm pot)
Both options are the same plant. XL is a larger supplied specimen. Pot diameter is not plant height; living plants vary naturally. One selected potted plant is included.
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Tropica' is a broad-leaved cultivar of the popular wendtii Cryptocoryne, selected and named by Tropica Aquarium Plants. It produces wider, more substantial leaves in a warm bronze-green tone with attractive surface texture, giving it more visual presence than the slender-leaved wendtii forms. It typically reaches 15–25cm in height.
Care is the same as all wendtii: low light, no CO2, planted in substrate. Root tabs support good establishment. Like all Crypts, temporary leaf melt can follow being moved — leave the rhizome in place and it will regrow. Once established it is very reliable and spreads via runners.
Plant roots in the substrate without burying the crown. Foreground to midground positioning in most aquariums.
XL size and care notes
Cryptocoryne wendtii Tropica is a compact crypt cultivar with distinctively hammered leaf texture in olive-green to bronze-brown tones. The pronounced surface texture gives the leaves an almost three-dimensional quality that contrasts effectively with smoother plants in the same layout. It is one of the most widely kept and reliably performing crypts in the aquarium hobby.
An easy plant for any set-up. It grows in low to medium light without CO2 injection and tolerates a broad range of water parameters. Like all crypts it may experience leaf melt when first introduced — old leaves deteriorate as the plant adjusts — but the roots remain intact and healthy new growth follows within a few weeks. Once settled it spreads steadily via runners.
The XL version supplies a larger, more established plant with better-developed roots, which reduces the adjustment period and provides more immediate impact in the aquarium. Well suited to midground positions in tanks from 60 litres upward. Remove from the pot, rinse the roots free of rockwool, and plant into a nutrient-rich substrate with the crown at surface level.
