Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:32:35 +0200 From: Juerg Steiger <juerg.steiger@iae.unibe.ch> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3347$foo@default> Subject: Re: Atypical Pinguicula gypsicola flower
Dear Richard ,
>My P.gypsicola has produced an odd flower. It has 2 spurs
>and 10 lobes to the corolla, 4 at the top and 6 at the
>bottom. The plant has previously produced normal flowers. If
>I self this new flower, are the resulting seeds going to
>produce plants with this double-flower or is it just an
>effect of the environment?
Twin-flowers, surplus corolla lobes and/or calyx tips, lacking spurs and
the like are quite frequent phenomena in many Pinguicula species. Usually
they are environment effects (Linne called them 'humour of nature'). The
only hereditary 'deformities' I observed are bifurcations of the spur and
filled flowers.
Kind regards Juerg
Juerg F. Steiger MD
Institute for Medical Education IAWF
University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine
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CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
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