Hello Terra Forums!
So, when I was doing through my terrarium cleaning up and feeding and whatever, and happened to look down at a Flytrap leaf that I had been trying to get a strike on for months now. This is what I found (best picture I could get...):
Clearly, plantlets are starting to form along the margin of the petiole, far from the white tissue that was close to the rhizome, and even further from the stem cell tissue. Now, how common is this? I've never seen it before, and to be honest, never even heard of it happening...
The reason it is so interesting to me is that it reminds me of the phenomenon of Drosera plantlets forming on the leaves when placed in moist sphagnum, and especially water. Because they're both in the same family (Droseraceae) perhaps there are some similar genes to that do this (ones that are, I theorize, more readily activated in Drosera). Its the kind of thing I'm looking into doing for my doctor research, and I'm starting some preliminary work on this spring...
Thanks for looking,
CJ
So, when I was doing through my terrarium cleaning up and feeding and whatever, and happened to look down at a Flytrap leaf that I had been trying to get a strike on for months now. This is what I found (best picture I could get...):
Clearly, plantlets are starting to form along the margin of the petiole, far from the white tissue that was close to the rhizome, and even further from the stem cell tissue. Now, how common is this? I've never seen it before, and to be honest, never even heard of it happening...
The reason it is so interesting to me is that it reminds me of the phenomenon of Drosera plantlets forming on the leaves when placed in moist sphagnum, and especially water. Because they're both in the same family (Droseraceae) perhaps there are some similar genes to that do this (ones that are, I theorize, more readily activated in Drosera). Its the kind of thing I'm looking into doing for my doctor research, and I'm starting some preliminary work on this spring...
Thanks for looking,
CJ
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