Range and localities [?]: cultivar, selection from Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Mi Oya', from Florida Aquatic Nurseries (USA), 2006; origin of the wild type: Mi Oya river, Sri Lanka
This Cryptocoryne wendtii cultivar was selected in 2006 at Florida Aquatic Nurseries (USA) from C. wendtii 'Mi Oya' and has been in the trade since 2009. C. wendtii 'Florida Sunset' is unique for the range of colour tones its variegated leaves develop under water: pink to white or golden yellow, mixed with green.
The cultivar Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Florida Sunset' is just as easy to cultivate as its parent form C. wendtii 'Mi Oya'. It has a slow to medium growth rate. Like other C. wendtii forms, it already grows under low light, but a medium to high light intensity produces more intense, brighter colours.
With its unique variety of colour shades, often on one and the same plant, Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Florida Sunset' is well suited as a colour accent in the midground of the aquarium, and in sufficiently tall aquariums also in the foreground. To achieve the whole palette of colour tones that this water trumpet cultivar can show, planting in groups is recommended, because no specimen is coloured exactly like another.
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