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i have a couple VFT plants that are growing 2 traps on one leaf is there a reason they are doing this the plant is really healthy and its on more than one leaf

Double trapped leaves is a fairly common anomaly. I've had 2-3 plants this year on which I've noticed double trapped leaves. Several years ago I noticed a leaf that split into two halfway up, and each of the two halves produced two traps, for a total of 4 traps on one leaf. It happens. Kind of neat when it does. Post a photo if you can.

thanks Steve ill get a pic up later it is cool i know alot of ppl heard of this i got to see it first hand but theres no real reason for this? like extreme weather change bad water or some just do it either way i not going to feed those double traps i want them to be there for as long as i can

You're lucky you know... I've never seen or got any 2 or more traps on 1 leaves on my plants before. I would like to see the pics as well.

Steve_D wrote:Several years ago I noticed a leaf that split into two halfway up, and each of the two halves produced two traps, for a total of 4 traps on one leaf.

Thats just freakish...

http://www.flytrapcare.com/carnivorous- ... otoid=5367 let me know if this doesnt work but should

That looks really neat in the photo, bnut1980. The leaf not only has two traps, but two separated veins in the petiole about halfway up. Very interesting.

bnut1980 wrote:but theres no real reason for this?

Personally, I attribute it to the fact that Venus Flytraps are kind of primitive plants in a way. Each plant is more like a colony of separate single-leafed plants, and the Flytrap as a whole has no stalk and no true growing crown that acts as intermediate tissue between underground and above ground growth, but instead just a bunch of leaves stuck in the ground, each of which often produces its own roots. It seems prone to growth anomalies such as double-headed leaves and false vivipary, as well as vigorous stem-cell type growth after the temporary stall in leaf growth as a flowerstalk is produced, which makes a callus like in tissue culture. Sometimes weird looking traps emerge from that blobby lump of tissue that signals vigorous new growth after flowering. Just another of the strange things I like about Venus Flytraps.

yea check out my 2 headed traps there small but it happens especially on typicals

Cool Dubstep!

Thats very neat. There is a website trying to sell an Akai Ryu like that for 100 dollars.

Shimizoki wrote:

Steve_D wrote:Several years ago I noticed a leaf that split into two halfway up, and each of the two halves produced two traps, for a total of 4 traps on one leaf.

Thats just freakish...

Yeah freaky stuff like that gives me the creeps! LOL!!

Shimizoki wrote:Thats very neat. There is a website trying to sell an Akai Ryu like that for 100 dollars.

OMG! They're still trying to sell that hocus pocus!

Darkrai283 wrote:

Shimizoki wrote:Thats very neat. There is a website trying to sell an Akai Ryu like that for 100 dollars.

OMG! They're still trying to sell that hocus pocus!

I just stopped questioning... people are stupid.