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D. tokaiensis white flower

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FrankenSnyder

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

White Flower
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Pink Flower
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Very pretty, congratulations. So it is self-fertile and can be reproduced by seed and/or leaf cuttings?
 
Radagast said:
Very pretty, congratulations. So it is self-fertile and can be reproduced by seed and/or leaf cuttings?
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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.
 
FrankenSnyder said:
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.
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Maybe register it as a cultivar? At least that way there will be some paper trail.
 
Not a Number said:
Maybe register it as a cultivar? At least that way there will be some paper trail.
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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.
 
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:)
 
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