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Old 12-11-2007, 12:16 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default plants are weird - ping Nick Maclaren

I was aware of the case of male apomixis in Cupressus dupreziana, but it
appears to even weirder than I knew. According to this article in
Arnoldia if you fertilise Cupressus sempervirens with C. dupreziana
pollen what you get is seed of C. dupreziana pollen.

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.ed...ticles/636.pdf

But then vertebrates are also weird - see Rana esculenta.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley