I have recently discovered I have a typical flytrap variety with 3 traps on 1 leaf. When they are open they form a perfect circle around the trap centre-ridges, which are parallel in the centre. I will try and get a photo if anyone is interested. The same plant has a 2-trap leaf and has given rise to multi-trap leaves in the past.
What would be the result if I tried to propagat the mutant leaf/ Would the whole plant be a tri-trap?
Kevin
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, Aug 31 2011 13:48 PM
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Posted 31 August 2011 - 14:20 PM
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Many Venus Flytrap plants will occasionally produce unusual leaf growth such as you describe, sometimes a leaf with no trap, a leaf with two traps, a trap that splits into two upper halves, a leaf that splits into two each with its own trap. I've even seen a leaf that split into two in which each of the two halves produced two traps, for a total of 4 traps on one leaf.
So far in my experience, such anomalies are not a stable characteristic of a particular plant but merely unusual growth patters that happen from time to time. So if you were to propagate the plant, the divisions or tissue-cultured plants that result may or may not display any such unusual growth. I suppose it might be possible for a particular plant to have a greater propensity for unusual leaf growth, but in my own experience it seems rather random.
Please do post a photo. What you describe would be very interesting to see!
So far in my experience, such anomalies are not a stable characteristic of a particular plant but merely unusual growth patters that happen from time to time. So if you were to propagate the plant, the divisions or tissue-cultured plants that result may or may not display any such unusual growth. I suppose it might be possible for a particular plant to have a greater propensity for unusual leaf growth, but in my own experience it seems rather random.
Please do post a photo. What you describe would be very interesting to see!
Edited by FlytrapRanch, 19 August 2012 - 14:15 PM.
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