idog24 wrote:I am talking from an owners perspective not from a buyers perspective. What you are saying only applies if this person wishes to sell their plant!! To sell a plant without a tag must be sold as a typical. However your plant will have a genetic make-up that associates with a known cultivar. Please be aware that having a tag or not will not affect the genetics of your plant.
Owner/ seller/ buyer does not matter, a typical is a typical regardless of what traits the plant may or may not possess. Unless it is an exact genetic match to a cultivar it is a typical. If it has an unknown history it is a typical, plain and simple. I have fused tooth x fused tooth seedlings growing that show fusing, that does not make it a fused tooth. They are typicals, and will be labeled that way, regardless of how much fusing they show. Even if they exactly match my Fused Tooth sitting on my deck right now.
By trying to label an unlabeled plant you are muddying up the gene pool. Thereby making it hard to sort through the bs for true collectors. This also makes a really great, relaxing hobby extremely aggravating.
Cultivars come from typicals. One typical will be selected for a specific trait. In some cases multiple traits will be bred into a plant just so it can be named as a cultivar. Your typical plant does not necessarily contain a cultivars genetics, but your cultivar definitely contains a typicals genetics.
Nandi wrote:I ordered some VFT as forma typica from a local store, but one of them is different. It looks like dentata a little bit or sawtooth idk. Hard to see in the picture but all of the traps are like that.
From the pic it's kind of hard to tell but I don't see two traps on there with the same teeth. It is a veritable smorgasbord of of differences from what I can see.
One other thing to note is some fly traps will display different characteristics through the different growing seasons. I think that may be what's going on here, depending on where in the world you are it may be in between seasons. I'm just starting spring at my place, and I mean only a few plants waking up. No fly traps are awake yet.
Who knows maybe it'll become a cultivar though, that's the fun in growing typicals.
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