dudo klasovity Posted November 28, 2010 Report Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hello, I have had this mystery plant in my collection since this summer. I ordered many seeds to introduce some sundews in vitro and I observed that one plant in jar with d. ascendens looked differently. I used no hormones, so it could not have been just morphologically altered ascendens. It must be a different species. I deflasked the plant (single plant from one seed) and I grew it outside in my greenhouse during the summer. It grew fairly fast. It always looked like some form of drosera spatulata to me. Now it put up a flower stalk.A very short hairy one (about 2cm long). I thought to myself, no spatulata has a hairy flower stalk, except from the variety from Gympie. Then I did some searches on the web and foung this Iggys thread http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?s...p;hl=gympiensis To me the plant looks exactly the same as mine. I have ordered some seeds (not of this species) from Iggy some time ago,,so could it be a single stray seed? Here are some pictures of the plant. I must add, it is the most beautiful spatulata variety (if indeed i am not mistaken about the species). What do you think? Thanx for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel O. Posted November 28, 2010 Report Share Posted November 28, 2010 (edited) Hi Dusan, yes, it´s definitely D. spatulata var. gympiensis. Iggy received seed of this species from me some time ago and yes, you are right, it seems to be the most beautiful D. spatulata. Here are a few more pictures: http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?s...p;hl=gympiensis Best regards, Dani Edited November 28, 2010 by Daniel O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudo klasovity Posted November 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hey Dani, thanx a lot! I have seen your beautiful pics of this species as well. I am glad you backed up my guess. It is indeed very beautiful plant and I thank Iggy for this 'contamination' :-) Is it self fertile? I find it interesting that when I manually polinated the flower, it closed immediately (within 5 minutes after pollination). I hope to get some seeds to spread this one around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel O. Posted November 28, 2010 Report Share Posted November 28, 2010 Yes, a really nice 'contamination', lol. I´ve never pollinated my flowers but always seed has been produced. Best regards, Dani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornet Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Wow very nice. I'm only about an hr and a half from gympie and i'm there probably once every month or 2, does anyone know more accurate data on where to find this clone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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