Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:45:08 -0600 From: ricell@juno.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3218$foo@default> Subject: Re: Snail eating VFT / VFT hybrids
>I have a VFT wich I am told is a Hybrid, it has arms about 6 inches
>long with jaws that are quite large,
Bruce's comment about having a hybrid VFT got me thinking. With all the
talk about cultivars and clone naming etc I was wondering about the
definition of hybrid. In botany, does hybrid mean an interspecies cross
(and therefore not heard of with Dionaea) or would a cross between two
Dionaea clones (for example Red Dragon and Akai Ryu) be accurately called
a hybrid? If not, what would it be called?
>Will the jaws be powerful enough to crush the shell? it's been in
>there about a week and it hasn't reopened.
I would say no. However it is very likely successfully digesting some of
the soft body parts of the snail.
Rich Ellis, Boulder, CO "ricell@juno.com"
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8564/
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