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Jens sent me the email from Dr. Fleishmann. I had a go at translating it. This is the original: This was my best guess at the translation: When he writes "One could best demonstrate a potential virus in the plant immunologically" I believe he means that the potential of a virus could be demonstrated by seeing if the variegation could be transmitted through exposing another plant to the fluids from "Patches" by breaking a leaf on each plant and rubbing them together.

Yes, the seeds were sown and grown in vitro. Started in October 2011, I think. Deflasked and potted out May 2012.

Thanks Guillaume and Peter!

Thanks everyone! And yes Jens, we need to swap cultures sometime!

Yes, both of these plants are very similar to other clones, so they won't be named nor sold as unique plants. They'll simply be used for future crosses or sold as seed grown plants in the FlytrapStore. Perhaps self-pollinating the Triton x Weinrot flowers will result in some red-colored Triton-like plants :)

These photos are an update to this thread: http://www.flytrapca...-tc-t15487.html The "Triton x Weinrot" seedling looks almost exactly like the mother plant Triton. Like Triton, it does not seem to take on color easily, so unfortunately it doesn't appear to have inherited any of the anthocyanin carrying traits of the father plant Weinrot. Triton x Weinrot Trichterfalle x Coquillage In addition to having the "fuzzy" arms (commonly called "scaling") as seen in the photo here as "Trichterfalle x Coquillage" was taken out of tissue culture: http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=14922 It also has remarkably long teeth (also known as cilia or marginal lashes) as seen in the photo below: To me, this cross looks very similar to Schuppenstiel with slightly longer teeth. It's a nice looking plant :) I've seen quite a few Trichterfalle seedlings now with the long cilia, including "Miss Pimbeche": http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=19913 So perhaps Trichterfalle carries the genes for long cilia?

These photos are an update to this thread: http://www.flytrapca...-tc-t15487.html In the fall of 2011, I received some flytrap seeds from a friend in Germany. There were quite a few interesting crosses in the bunch and Microdent x Weinrot was one of them. I sterilized and sowed them in vitro. There were quite a few seeds from the cross that successfully germinated. Of them, there were 5 that had traits similar to the mother plant (Microdent). In my experience with germinating thousands of seeds, the seedlings usually have more genetic similarities to the mother plant than to the father plant. This is the case here as well. The father plant, Weinrot, is a red-leafed Venus fly trap variety. The Microdent x Weinrot seedlings are not genetically identical to Microdent and, while they look similar, there are some distinguishing characteristics between them and Microdent. Namely, the seedlings seem more able to get good coloration in the traps than does Microdent. This is likely due to the influence of the father plant Weinrot, which has a lot of anthocyanin in its leaves. Here are some photos I snapped a while back just before transplanting these babies:

These photos are an update to this thread: http://www.flytrapca...-tc-t15487.html In the fall of 2011, I received some flytrap seeds from a friend in Germany. There were quite a few interesting crosses in the bunch and Coquillage x Trichterfalle was one of them. I sterilized and sowed them in vitro. There were quite a few seeds from the cross that successfully germinated. Of them, there were 4 that had traits similar to the mother plant (Coquillage). In my experience with germinating thousands of seeds, the seedlings usually have more genetic similarities to the mother plant than to the father plant. This is the case here as well. They're not genetically identical to Coquillage and, while they look similar, there are some distinguishing characteristics between the Coquillage x Trichterfalle seedlings and Coquillage. Namely, the seedlings seem more able to get good coloration in the traps than does Coquillage. Here are some photos I snapped a while back just before transplanting these babies:

Very interesting Guillaume! I'm not sure I know what granatic sand is or how I would obtain it, but your results look very good.

They look the same to me as well.

Depends on many variables, but normally anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks. Sometimes it may not show at all (or is very hard to see) until the first replate.

Great job with the cultures! Congrats on the success :) Sounds like you're having fun.

I've seen photos of it before, but it seems to be quite a rare occurrence.

B-52 is certainly one of the best plants in cultivatation. Yours looks great Xeno!

Looks interesting! It appears as though the plants in the photo have recently been repotted, so they may not look their best. Do you have other photos of the plant before repotting? It looks a bit like Cross Teeth or Long Red Fingers...

Great looking plant Lucien!

Love it!

Looks great Yuri! I look forward to growing one someday...

Thanks Yuri! So the defining features of the clone are its oddly-spaced and oddly-shaped teeth? Is it also an all-green flytrap, never showing any coloration?

Yeah, those are the only two photos I've been able to find of it. I thought initially it looks like Fondue as well, but looking more closely, there isn't any deformation on the traps. My guess is that the name comes from the somewhat elongated traps and oddly spaced, sometimes forked teeth?

Can someone tell me a bit about this cultivar? Is it simply an all-green variety with slightly unusual traps? I can only find one photo of a large plant and that's on Yuri's website.

Gorgeous plant Lucien!

Awesome plants Thomas!

Mine too is in the greenhouse and it does get a blush of orange in the traps at times.

Very nice! Looks like a "red microdent"