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Post by boggardener on Jul 15, 2009 5:50:17 GMT
one of my dionaea plants, which was descended from a typical plant, is now producing leaves with peculiar antler-formations on the petioles. I am sure I have seen this on some images of the funnel trap variety, but this plant is descended from a typical plant. Is this even possible?
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Post by Aidan on Jul 15, 2009 10:30:15 GMT
This sort of thing?  Plants are perverse organisms and will do odd things from time to time. It may be a response to some environmental factor and the probability is that growth will return to normal in time. Wait and see what happens. |
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Post by boggardener on Jul 16, 2009 20:50:28 GMT
Oh, I see this happenned to one of your plants as well. I hoped this was some really incredible anomaly. Oh well.
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Post by Aidan on Jul 16, 2009 23:47:51 GMT
Well no... The photo is of the plant that goes under the name of "Crested Petioles" and all leaves have this type of malformation. But, plants will do strange things from time to time for no obvious reason. Growth habit usually returns to normal after a while. For example, how about this!?!?!?!   Flower stems on two 'Akai Ryu' this year. Each spiralling, but opposite handed! Or this!!!   A seriously weird Sarracenia ala, including a complete loop! Above this point, the pitcher was entirely normal. |
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Post by boggardener on Jul 17, 2009 18:44:41 GMT
Thank you, Aidan. I guess I assumed that all deformities were caused by genetic mutation. It does make sense though that an environmental factor (or factors) are the cause of this, as I have seen this to a lesser extent in at least one of my other plants in the same conditions. It seems that I should change their growing conditions somehow, because most of my Dionaea seem to be producing many offshoots rather than growing full-sized leaves. One cluster could even be mistaken for a cluster of pygmy variety plants! I wonder if these environment-inspired deformities have or once had some purpose in coping with adverse conditions.
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