Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:42:56 +0100 From: steiger@iae.unibe.ch (Juerg Steiger) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg622$foo@default> Subject: Re: Weird Drosera capensis flower
Nigel
>I was about to decommission an old D capensis flower stalk when I noticed
>that the second flower from the top was distinctly abnormal. Inside the
>sepals, instead of petals, was a set of leaf-like things with carnivorous
>glands
>on the inside.
My D. capensis do the same. This sort of vegetative propagation happens
only in the uppermost part of the panicle. If you put these 'flowers' into
the substrate they form roots and develop new plants. This phenomenon seems
to happen only inthe period of short days (winter) which makes sense:
During the period of a lack or at least a reduced number of insects the
plant propagates vegetatively.
Kind regards Juerg
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