Hybrids

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2000.04.28 at 03:11:29(4460) Dear Aroiders, There is no problem in hybridize plants. They do it all the time in nature! The main problem is that they don't tell us. We, the taxonomists, are always trying to explain the diversity like we were living in a completely Darwinist world. Reticulation (a beautiful name for the promiscuity in plants) is a real thing. Even without curious hybrid-nuts, plant taxonomy would be already in a mess because of free love in nature. People just make it faster! Cheers, Eduardo. +More P.S. Believe me, I am a plant taxonomist too! > >Neil, > >you are talking about an ideal world where never ever plant labels get >lost or mixed up. If you are going to hybridize Amorphophallus in >your own cultivation, this is perfectly ok and might result in some >beautiful new clones. > >BUT as soon as these hybrids are going to be distributed to other >aroiders, then this will have fatal effects sooner or later. Even the >best documents and records will get lost in the one or other >cultivation some day, there's no doubt about it. > >Just face the fact, that plants will be mixed up in the ongoing >distribution and redistribution process and not all of us have the >possibilities nor knowlegdes to make a proper identification for >unlabeled Amorphophallus. > >Thus it is very likely for example that a hybrid which is phenotypical >(don't know the exact word in English = appearance of a plant) close >to a species might be re-distributed as the species ... > >Even to think about it seems a nightmare to me. > > > If documented, what is the problem with trying to hybridize > > Amorphophallus? > > (BTW the plural of Amorphophallus is Amorphophallus) > >Isn't it Amorphophalli ??? > >Cheers, > >Bj?rn Malkmus > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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