Pitcher in a pod ??????

[unclemasa]

N. lavacola

[stevestewart]

It looks like several of your capsules are sending out growth!
If it was my plant I would be attempting some cuttings. You may have found a new method of propagation.
I never thought of attempting to root Nepenthes flowers. If successful, you could make tissue culture less necessary, for some species at least.

Take care,
Steven Stewart

[rainforest]

I think I saw something like that in John Carpenter's, "The Thing." But I have witnessed this before on a couple of tc clones. One was with BE's rafflesiana clone ( I forgot which one) and N. diatas also a BE tc clone.
Is that N. lavicola of tc origin?

M

[Noa_F]

Wow, that is truly amazing! What a strange occurence.

[sdcarnivores]

I've mentioned to someone here before about flower stalks and tissue culture. This is not such a strange occurrence, I've seen it several times before. I've seen different plant parts arise from the flower stock, mostly leaves. I surmised that just maybe using flower stalks in tissue culture may provide an alternative to meristem tissue culture for Nepenthes. The flower stalks of Drosera are certainly very active in this regard. I used to frequently use flower stalks as a primary means of prorogation, treating them like cuttings. They were always easier to use than the leaves.

However, it does seem that plant has some sort of mutation. Likely its some environmental factor (probably introduced when it was in culture) that effected an otherwise normal gene. You should dissect the emerging growth to see how they are growing and what points they are growing from. You should also experiment to see if they are able to make roots on their own if treated like cuttings.

[ep]

Hi All,

Are you guys having some nuclear fallout in the northern hemisphere ;D.
We have seen these mutations and worse many times over the years with tissue cultured plants.
It will always be our opinion that conservation through cultivation using todays tc methods will never be the answer if you want to preserve the species!
Have to agree with Rainforest on this topic

Cheers,

Geoff
BTW. I hope you are all coming down here for the ICPS conference at the end of the month?

[unclemasa]

I will be opening up the pods to further investigate.

This is not the first time I have seen this ..... I think Rob once posted pictures of the same thing at pitcherplants.com. I will try to look it up as it seem like it might have been N. lavacola that he showed.

Whatever the cause .... it is bizarre! Kinda the equivalent of a botanical Cesarean.

[unclemasa]

I found it ..... it was N. spectabilis.

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