D. tokaiensis white flower

[FrankenSnyder]

I finally did it. There is now a white flowered D. tokaiensis. Only pink flowered plants have been found in nature. Using the Colchicine elixir I successfully transmuted a white flowered sterile hybrid D. x tokaiensis (D. rotundifolia X spatulata) it into the fertile D. tokaiensis. Thanks to Warren for selecting and keeping the best hybrid over the past five years. Through studying these we will have a better understanding of how the species came about. It’s a neat plant to grow too.
~Dr. FrankenSnyder

 

[Not a Number]

As it happens I managed to catch the untreated plants with flower about 1/3 closed this morning.

White Flower

Pink Flower

 

[FrankenSnyder]

Beautiful, thanks Warren. Remember: be sure to label 'artificial'

 

[plant#1]

Great job! Those are very nice.

 

[bluemax]

Fun stuff! I've always liked this hybrid.

 

[KATastrophe]

Wow love it with the white flower this looks great congrats!

 

[marcus_r]

Very nice, Doctor FrankenSnyder!
Good to see that you're still busy in your mad scientist lab!

 

[Radagast]

Very pretty, congratulations. So it is self-fertile and can be reproduced by seed and/or leaf cuttings?

 

[FrankenSnyder]

Very pretty, congratulations. So it is self-fertile and can be reproduced by seed and/or leaf cuttings?

Yes, it can now produce seed. I have begun taking leaf cutting, which it grows easily from. Soon it will spread around the world like the natural form has. But I hope it will always be known this one is manmade.

 

[Not a Number]

Yes, it can now produce seed. I have begun taking leaf cutting, which it grows easily from. Soon it will spread around the world like the natural form has. But I hope it will always be known this one is manmade.

Maybe register it as a cultivar? At least that way there will be some paper trail.

 

[FrankenSnyder]

Maybe register it as a cultivar? At least that way there will be some paper trail.

I don't really care for fancy cultivar names; I like to just label it D. tokaiensis white flower. But that would be a way to record. Maybe after it becomes popularized. Or, maybe someone will want to reference it in a science paper as was done with two of my other evil creations.

 

[FrankenSnyder]

I just received a paper about artificially reproducing D. tokaiensis:

Breeding and Cytogenetic Characterizations of
New Hexaploid Drosera Strains Colchicine-Induced
from Triploid Hybrid of D. rotundifolia and D. spatulata
Santhita Tungkajiwangkoon1, Junichi Shirakawa2,
Masako Azumatani3 and Yoshikazu Hoshi4*
© 2016 The Japan Mendel Society Cytologia 81(3): 263–269

The researchers make it sound so difficult

 

[Not a Number]

Did they have any white flowered fertile plants?

 

[FrankenSnyder]

Did they have any white flowered fertile plants?

Flower color is not mentioned, and there are no flower photos. Must be pink as natural.