Banded traps:
This is a particularly pretty
plant we found. A few years back (during the 'Royal Red' controversy),
I read a few grey literature publications by
Australians which made me
realize that the Australians had a well developed terminology for
Dionaea pigmentation forms. They referred to
traps like this, where there is a stripe of pigmentation on the outer
trap surface, as being "banded." This is a pretty
banded trap, with a green margin but red spines. Apparently, as you
can see in this photograph, the banding
is only on some of the traps (and then, sometimes incompletely).
I wonder why? Illumination intensity? Seasonality? Trap maturity?
