Mutation

[PaulDavidMc]

This little twisted little cutie has been a talking point of mine for a while now

 

[BunsenH]

Does that plant regularly produce traps like that?

 

[PaulDavidMc]

Does that plant regularly produce traps like that?

No, alas it was just a one-off.

 

[coconut]

No, alas it was just a one-off.

Hi, I got the same kind of mutation on one of my dionaea.

 

[Will20013]

I wonder if you started a tissue culture using that trap if it would be stable?

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

I would think that that is a developmental deformity, not genetic or epigenetic. So likely would not continue in TC.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Still if you like to experiment you could add various PGR combos in VFT TC and see what happens. A tetraploid VFT might be interesting.

 

[BunsenH]

Some genetic lines can be more prone to such deformities than others. There's a patch of clover in my back yard that produces much more than the usual incidence of 4-leafed stalks, but those are still a minority.