Post by bluesboy on Sept 6, 2008 23:30:48 GMT
Hi All,
Well, we've come across another incredibly amazing thing here, this time the surprise comes in twos! A two-headed S. leucophylla pitcher!!! Phil, in all of his experience, I believe, said he's only seen that once, and it was on a rubra. Other's who have been around the plants just as long have come by and admitted they'd never seen it before. The two heads are better than one; they catch twice as much, using ultimately one ala to the base; maybe the Sarr.s have caught on to that idea, and only evolution stands in the way before they enslave the Homo sapiens... or it's just a freak chemical accident in the plant. Yeah, I like that ending better.
Here it is- remember, don't point at the freak, it's not polite
Btw, we will tag this plant- anomalies like this are very rare, but there is solid science that if this specific clone did this, it might be more predisposed to doing it at some other point in it's life; or it might not. However, we've seen this split leaf phenomenon occur multiple times over years on a specific VFT that gets double heads from time to time or Drosera clone with split leaves from time to time. It would be interesting to research what is behind all this- perhaps thru continual inbreeding of the clone it would make the trait occur more often?- on the other hand it might not have anything to do with transferable genes, or genes at all. Who knows? only Two knows; the 'Two Headed-leuco'. Wow. Anyway, that's all for right now, stay tuned, more "a-head"
Get it? 'more a head'? Ok I'll calm down now. Best, Nick 'bluesboy'
Well, we've come across another incredibly amazing thing here, this time the surprise comes in twos! A two-headed S. leucophylla pitcher!!! Phil, in all of his experience, I believe, said he's only seen that once, and it was on a rubra. Other's who have been around the plants just as long have come by and admitted they'd never seen it before. The two heads are better than one; they catch twice as much, using ultimately one ala to the base; maybe the Sarr.s have caught on to that idea, and only evolution stands in the way before they enslave the Homo sapiens... or it's just a freak chemical accident in the plant. Yeah, I like that ending better.
Here it is- remember, don't point at the freak, it's not polite
Btw, we will tag this plant- anomalies like this are very rare, but there is solid science that if this specific clone did this, it might be more predisposed to doing it at some other point in it's life; or it might not. However, we've seen this split leaf phenomenon occur multiple times over years on a specific VFT that gets double heads from time to time or Drosera clone with split leaves from time to time. It would be interesting to research what is behind all this- perhaps thru continual inbreeding of the clone it would make the trait occur more often?- on the other hand it might not have anything to do with transferable genes, or genes at all. Who knows? only Two knows; the 'Two Headed-leuco'. Wow. Anyway, that's all for right now, stay tuned, more "a-head"
Get it? 'more a head'? Ok I'll calm down now. Best, Nick 'bluesboy'
