Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?

Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#298991

By ALVINSHEK -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:31 am
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:31 am #298991

Hi,
I found this plant in San Francisco in a small stream a year ago and have grown it in my mini bowl aquarium. The leaves and stems also had these sticky hairs with slime on them. Can you tell me if these are carnivorous? Should I feed bugs to them?

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#298993

By Raistlarn -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:33 am
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:33 am #298993

I don't know what it is, but I know it isn't carnivorous.

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#298998

By Sakaaaaa -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:56 am
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:56 am #298998

Nah just some aquatic weed. Aquarium you say? Try getting utricilaria! They can be submerged and make beautiful flowers!

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299072

By alanmota2004 -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:34 pm
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:34 pm #299072

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299074

By mikefallen13 -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:40 pm
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:40 pm #299074

alanmota2004 wrote:Dumbass

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Really? Someone asks an honest question and that's your response?

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299075

By alanmota2004 -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:42 pm
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:42 pm #299075

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299081

By Nick -  Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:29 pm
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- Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:29 pm #299081

alanmota2004 wrote:Oops wrong post

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That response is unnecessary in any thread on this site.

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299140

By Fishkeeper -  Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:45 pm
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- Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:45 pm #299140

The sticky stuff is meant to deter bugs, but it's not carnivorous. It could theoretically evolve into a carnivorous plant, that's thought to be how sundews came about, but that would take a few hundred generations.

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299186

By slinx -  Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:36 pm
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- Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:36 pm #299186

Fishkeeper wrote:that would take a few hundred generations.

I think you're missing a 'million' between 'hundred' and 'generations'.

Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299190

By Sakaaaaa -  Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:21 pm
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- Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:21 pm #299190

Maybe some huge corporation could start from a non-carnivrous sticky plant or any other plant and mass TC the plants and the TC results for some hundred years and they can make a stop motion of evolution and the future people have a man made species.

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Re: Help ID this plant... Carnivorous or not?#299277

By Nick -  Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:51 pm
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- Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:51 pm #299277

It would take millions of years without some type of artificial DNA modification. For example, it took one strain of E. coli 31,000-31,500 generations just to evolve citrate metabolism on its own. E. coli has a MUCH simpler genome than any plant and it takes far less time to proceed from one generation to the next.

Also, there's no money in it (at the moment), so no motivation for a corporation to invest in such a project. Unless some of the alternative medicine claims about carnivorous plants hold true (which is iffy), then I don't see this happening.

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