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Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:16 am
by Matt
Last year a friend in Europe sent me some flytrap seed from interesting crosses. I flasked them all in tissue culture and grew them over the winter. Quite a few of them are turning out to be interesting looking plants. I thought I'd share some photos of them. Sorry for the poor quality. I didn't have a chance to zoom and crop them before Leah resized them and accidentally saved over the originals. I'll take more photos after the plants harden off and start looking more like real plants :)

Trichterfalle x Coquillage (Thinking of naming this one FTS Fuzzy Arms :D)
FTS Fuzzy Arms
FTS Fuzzy Arms
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FTS Fuzzy Arms
FTS Fuzzy Arms
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There is another one from the same cross (Trichterfalle x Coquillage) that also has the scaling on the leaves. It will be interesting to see what kind of traps they produce. Trichterfalle doesn't make its odd-shaped traps for which it is named when it is in tissue culture and neither do either of these seedlings.

Triton x Weinrot
Triton x Weinrot
Triton x Weinrot
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Looks a lot like the mother plant Triton, but perhaps with a bit more fusing in the teeth and perhaps it will have better coloration from the Weinrot cross.

Coquillage x Trichterfalle
Coquillage x Trichterfalle
Coquillage x Trichterfalle
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Coquillage x Trichterfalle
Coquillage x Trichterfalle
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Looks a lot like the mother plant Coquillage, but with more teeth and some of the smaller ones look really menacing. When I was replating this one while doing TC work, I actually laughed out loud to myself when I looked at the teeth on it while the trap was still slightly open. It looked like a little dog snarling at me :)

There are 3 or 4 other seedlings from this same cross that all look similar to the parent plant Coquillage, but with slightly different "teeth." I'm interested in seeing what they all look like once growing out of TC for a while.

Microdent x Weinrot
Microdent x Weinrot
Microdent x Weinrot
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Looks like the mother plant Microdent, but with better coloration, at least judging by the color already showing in the traps in vitro which usually show little to no color. Will know more about how colorful the plant is once it is grown outdoors or in greenhouse conditions.

Hope you enjoyed them!

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:21 am
by pieguy452
Those look very promising! Can't wait to see how they look in the future :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:35 am
by Matt
pieguy452 wrote:Can't wait to see how they look in the future
Thanks! Me too :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 1:41 am
by jht-union
Wow Matt, they look very cool and look promising, let us know how they do out of TC. :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:08 am
by Wahter
FTS Fuzzy Arms definitely looks like something I'd like to get eventually. :)

Thanks for the "this is what we're up to at FTS" post. :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:37 am
by Dionae
Wow, I want a Fuzzy Arms.

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:04 am
by Steve_D
Very neat, Matt! Thanks for the preview. :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:43 am
by jaester
I want all of them, especially that Microdent x Weinrot. Can't wait!

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 6:44 am
by Daniel_G
Matt wrote:Thinking of naming this one FTS Fuzzy Arms
How about FTS Hairy Legs? :lol:

Amazing plants in there Matt, all look very cool.
Can't wait to see these in the international store!

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:54 am
by Grey
Huh, cool! Those are some interesting traps - good luck with them, I hope they continue their unique growth habits and prove to be keepers!

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:48 pm
by Stratofortress
I would change FTS Fuzzy Trap's name to FTS Talons
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Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 3:42 pm
by xr280xr
Very cool! Thanks for the pics.
Matt wrote: Trichterfalle x Coquillage (Thinking of naming this one FTS Fuzzy Arms :D)
FTS Chewbacca? :geek:

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:12 pm
by ThomasL
interesting plants.
For Trichterfalle x Coquillage it looks a little bit at like a part from a dragon to me.
Like the skin of a dragon. Just a idea.

Bye Thomas

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:09 pm
by Matt
ThomasL wrote:Like the skin of a dragon. Just a idea.
Yeah, I like the idea of having "dragon" in the name :)

Re: Some interesting looking flytraps coming out of TC

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:02 am
by Dionae
ThomasL wrote:interesting plants.
For Trichterfalle x Coquillage it looks a little bit at like a part from a dragon to me.
Like the skin of a dragon. Just a idea.

Bye Thomas
...or Godzillas spines.