carnivorous plant mixing

carnivorous plant mixing#1487

By Carolyn -  Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:03 am
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- Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:03 am #1487

can you mix to entirely different kinds of carnivorous plants ?

example: venus flytrap and a sundew

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Re: carnivorous plant mixing#1490

By Matt -  Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:56 am
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- Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:56 am #1490

There are quite a few different species of carnivorous plants that grow well together. All Sarracenia (pitcher plants) and Dionaea can grow well together. I think most Drosera (sundews) can also grow with Dionaea and Sarracenia, but a few have different growing requirements. What type of sundew are you looking at getting?

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Re: carnivorous plant mixing#1506

By lemonlily -  Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:07 am
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- Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:07 am #1506

Matt, i think she said mixing as in puting two plants together to make weird seeds. i don't know what it's called but you know how there are so many different kinds of fly traps? she wants to know if you can combine the different carnivorous plants. get it?

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Re: carnivorous plant mixing#1509

By Matt -  Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:48 am
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- Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:48 am #1509

Ah yes, that's called cross-pollinating. You can't cross pollinate different families of plants (like Venus Fly Traps and Sundews), but you can cross pollinate most species within a family. For Dionaea, there is only one species (muscipula), so it really isn't cross pollination.

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Re: carnivorous plant mixing#1525

By lemonlily -  Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:49 am
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- Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:49 am #1525

why is it that you can't mix the two different kinds of carnivorous plants?

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Re: carnivorous plant mixing#1526

By Matt -  Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:08 am
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- Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:08 am #1526

I think the case with the majority of plants and animals is that breeding outside of the species isn't possible. There are a few cases that I can think of that break this exception in the animal kingdom (i.e. horses and donkey make a mule, lions and tigers make ligers), but I'm not sure about plants.

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