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Old 08-03-2003, 02:21 PM
Jim Lewis
 
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Default [IBC] Pyracomeles

It must be fairly easy to grow from seed, or difficult from
cuttings.


But . . . if you can grow it from seed, what would you get?
AFIK, hybrids (almost by definition) are mules (sterile) and can
only be propagated vegetatively. If seeds are viable, that says
sexual reproduction works, and the resulting seedling
could/would/may be entirely different from either of its parents
(and how could you be certain who both parents were, anyway,
plants and their pollen being the promiscuous things that they
are?). Presumably (?) pollen from either of the originating
species could have done the dirty deed.

If it DOES reproduce sexually (and more or less true to type)
wouldn't that be the first (or even last) step to species-hood?

Puzzled, perplexed, and bewildered.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - "People,
when Columbus discovered this country, it was plum full of nuts
and berries. And I'm right here to tell you the berries are just
about all gone." -- Uncle Dave Macon, old-time musician

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