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Post by sarah on Nov 9, 2016 16:44:24 GMT -5
I bought a lovely P. Aphrodite from tom a few weeks ago, and one of the new leaves it's growing is doing a great impression of a heli pitcher. I think this plant may be suffering from an identity crisis, but it's ok. It's 2016 and it can be any plant it wants to be
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Post by shoggoths on Nov 9, 2016 17:07:00 GMT -5
Sorry, can't see the picture.
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Post by sarah on Nov 9, 2016 17:25:17 GMT -5
Hmm imgur seems to have had a hiccup. I re-uploaded, should work now but I can't edit the original post.
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Post by shoggoths on Nov 9, 2016 18:36:17 GMT -5
Hey hey, nice pic. I've seen this behaviour a few time with pings. If you can get a ping with all those kind of leave, you'll be rich. Still, really cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by WillyCKH on Nov 9, 2016 21:23:42 GMT -5
Super cool
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Post by mexiping on Nov 11, 2016 14:13:52 GMT -5
So cute!
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Post by lloyd on Nov 11, 2016 14:26:31 GMT -5
A very interesting picture from an evolutionary point of view. Right before our eyes we can see how a pitcher trap can evolve from a sticky, flat leaf! Of course it would take longer to become stabilized in the genome. Presuming of course that there are, in Pings, genes that predispose to a cup shaped leaf. This is likely just a response to some sort of environmental stress. Although as we have seen in VFT's, there are a multiplicity of stable cultivars with widely varying leaf (trap) shapes.
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Post by sarah on Nov 11, 2016 17:47:29 GMT -5
Environmental stress is likely, since the new leaf formed right after being mailed and repotted. I wonder if the change is only morphological or if it is epigenetic as well. I kind of want to take a leaf pulling but I don't want to kill the cute heli-ping leaf
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Post by hal on Nov 12, 2016 0:37:35 GMT -5
That Ping saw one of Maiden's Heli's and got envious.
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