I have just noticed TWO of my plants with double traps, and having
visited the Web page, I read that Rick Walker has had one of his
plants do this, and he considers it rare.
One of the plants is growing in good light in my green house, and
is sitting in about 1-2 inches of water, in a 3 inch pot (Must get
around to repotting most of them!), and has some light to medium red
traps, and a few quite green. It flowered at the beggining of the year,
but I cut it off, along with all the others, as I didn't want to set
my plants back at all. The second plant is also growing in good light,
but most of its traps are green, or slightly yellow. This plant is
sitting in about 1 inch of water, and also flowered. The trap on this
plant is the most malformed. I appears to "split" about 5mm along the
leaf, and form into two traps. The other plant just produced them
back to back.
Some of my other plants, under furthur observation, have more than
three trigger hairs per lobe!
What on earth am I doing to produce such mutants!?
Bye For Now,
Russell Elliott
P.S. My address has changed back to elliott@nexus.edu.au