<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>My guess is that the "pinkness" or "redness" is still there, just now there is a lot more green chlorophyll that hides it. Just like all-red Drosera or Dionaea clones. There is more red than green, so the green is masked out by the red. There is still the same amount of green, just now you can't see it.[b said:Quote[/b] (homer @ Feb. 12 2004,10:52)]Do you think they lose their "pinkness" when fed because they don't need to attract prey? Kind of like a Nepenthes not producing pitchers when it has pleanty of nourishment?
-Homer
Yah, but that would mean the chloroplast have increased in concentration, and I didn't think plants did that much, what with those orginels being their own entity and all... I guess you could check this easy. Just make a slide of a sliver of a green plant and a pink one and look at how many chloroplast each has in it.[b said:Quote[/b] (PinguiculaMan @ Feb. 12 2004,22:05)]<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>My guess is that the "pinkness" or "redness" is still there, just now there is a lot more green chlorophyll that hides it. Just like all-red Drosera or Dionaea clones. There is more red than green, so the green is masked out by the red. There is still the same amount of green, just now you can't see it.[b said:Quote[/b] (homer @ Feb. 12 2004,10:52)]Do you think they lose their "pinkness" when fed because they don't need to attract prey? Kind of like a Nepenthes not producing pitchers when it has pleanty of nourishment?
-Homer
I think of it like a teeter-totter, where the balance shifts back and forth.</span>