Range and localities [?]: Island of Mindanao (Philippines), near Zamboanga
Cryptocoryne coronata is a large water trumpet that resembles C. usteriana. It can be discerned from the latter by characteristics of the spathe, though. It is as suitable as aquarium plant as C. usteriana, however, it is rarely cultivated and cannot be obtained in trade.
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C. Kasselmann (2010) found that Cryptocoryne coronata is well suited as an aquarium plant and long-lived, but under the same conditions multiplies by runners much less than the similar C. usteriana (see also "General"). The aquarium in which the plant was successfully cultivated for approx. 10 years has hard, alkaline water at 24-28 °C and moderate light intensity.
References and further reading:The crowned water trumpet is evidently a great rarity, not commercially available and probably hardly obtainable from aquarists either, but apart from that, the same certainly applies to this species in terms of aquascaping as to the similar C. usteriana: because of its height of up to approx. 50 cm, it is best used only in correspondingly large, tall aquariums, in the midground or background.
The much lower propagation by runners, compared with C. usteriana, mentioned by C. Kasselmann (2010) could even be an advantage: C. coronata would then be a good alternative to that species if one wants to use it as a specimen plant or a smaller group that is to stay under control and, if possible, should not expand through runner plants.
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