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Huh? Whah? Double Trap?

I was just combimg through my plants, looking in detail at my beauties when I noticed this dicey trap
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Huh?
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Whah?
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Wow. A double trap. They are different sizes, at first I thought one trap is in another. Looking at a different angle, shows me they are fused:0o: Also, what are the strings with brown things on the end coming out the soil? And finaly, sorry about the crappy pics, I had to use 3X digital zoom to get a clear shot :)
 
Genetic Mutations FTW! Those aren't crappy pics, you know. And I think those are moss spores or something. I have no idea.
 
LOL mutation dionaea cut the leaf off and tissue culture to a new type of mutation vft !!!! lol
 
I had a freak trap like that last year:

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Wow, that's very cool!
 
...and what would one call a double trap cultivar like those? a 'tutu trap'... :-))
 
...and what would one call a double trap cultivar like those? a 'tutu trap'... :-))

LMAO!!!!!:-)) :-))

AWSOME pics guys, and fantastic VFTs, thats pretty cool how they do such odd things, one would think its a ploy to catch TWICE the amount of prey.. LOL!!
 
Surprisingly i have a lot of traps that come out mutated like that. :0o:
 
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LOL mutation dionaea cut the leaf off and tissue culture to a new type of mutation vft !!!! lol

It doesn't work that way... Since this is a typical vft, and this 1 leaf is a fluke.

Nice find, Jayjay!
 
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Since someone needs to say it every time this topic rolls around:

They're very cool, but none of these plants ever seem to end up really being "mutants." In fact, there's a good chance that there are metric tonnes of genetically identical plants out there from the same TC batch.

These things arise from time to time, but nobody that I know of has successfully propagated a plant that a) consistently displays these malformations and/or b) pass on the characteristic to offspring. Even then, one would need to consider the environmental factors... But if you think you've got a bonafide mutant, I'd be happy to meet it. ;)

Chances are though, that you're like me and have a few odd traps crop up on random plants every growing season.
 
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They're very cool, but none of these plants ever seem to end up really being "mutants."

Yeah, I know! Even the VFT "Wacky Traps" / "Bart Simpson" is not a stable mutation!

Kinda disappointing.
 
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Even the VFT "Wacky Traps" / "Bart Simpson" is not a stable mutation!
Kinda disappointing.


Huh? What do you mean? It's molecular structure, breaks down? Is it the same as fused traps then?
 
  • #15
yeah, those brown string things are from the moss.

Cool pics everyone :)
 
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