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Post by adelea on Oct 9, 2014 20:53:57 GMT
I went out to check on the carns here and found a D. burmannii that had popped up in a U. biloba/dichotoma pond pot had made a plantlet on the end of an old inflorescence, I thought this was odd as I was told seed was the only asexual propagation method of D. burmannii, but in all honestly have never tried leaf pulling's before so perhaps I am wrong and this is common. Attachments:
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Post by adelea on Oct 9, 2014 20:57:38 GMT
My D. spatulata and D. capensis have done this before, but I was under the impression that like D. prolifera they did it readily.
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Post by Dave Evans on Oct 9, 2014 22:42:56 GMT
Well, lets see if you can actually get a separate plant from it...
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Post by hcarlton on Oct 10, 2014 1:14:10 GMT
I think this is the first time I've ever heard of apomixis on a D. burmannii. If you can get it to root you may have a first there....
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coline
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Post by coline on Oct 12, 2014 19:51:20 GMT
It may be some interesting genetic material on that plant as to try to propagate it asexually and experiment
since D. burmannii from what I have read is a plant almost not possible to propagate in that way (I have never heard a case)
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Post by adelea on Oct 13, 2014 21:34:57 GMT
Its still making new leaves, but no roots and the inflorescence is separated from the mother plant, so I guess its going to live.
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Post by adelea on Oct 30, 2014 0:29:12 GMT
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Post by adelea on Oct 30, 2014 0:31:27 GMT
Well the plant is still going, healthy, eating, and seems to have minute roots (1mm), so I am optimistically going with this worked and Drosera burmannii may a-sexually reproduce, if it occurred in cultivation I have no doubt it occurs in the wild, rare as it may be.
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Post by coline on Oct 31, 2014 15:37:25 GMT
try to propagate those seeds as they may be repeating the process later
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Post by Dave Evans on Nov 19, 2014 0:57:36 GMT
Very nice.
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Post by adelea on Nov 19, 2014 20:06:12 GMT
I will try and get seed, but with the holidays now on I will be here and there (away) so may not get a chance.
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Post by Joseph Clemens on Nov 20, 2014 13:37:59 GMT
Very nice adelea, I always enjoy seeing someone break the rules. At least inspire their plants to break the rules.
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