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Posted by campanula UK Cambridge (My Page) on Mon, Oct 17, 05 at 16:02
| does anyone know if all hybrids such as heuchera x tiarella - heucherella and so on, are always sterile, needing vegetative propagation? In animals, interspecies hybrids are always sterile although apparently, there has been inter-species breeding between some south american )I think) monkeys creating a new subspecies. Can this happen in the plant world, anyone? |
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RE: hybrids
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| I don't know what might be possible in theory, but in the world of everyday gardening I would say that vegetative propagation is the only way to obtain new plants. Chris |
RE: hybrids
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| There are plenty of inter-species hybrids which produce seed. Some of them even occur naturally. Of course that may lead you to question the boundaries of those particular species :) |
RE: hybrids
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- Posted by DeeDs1 the far SWUK-9 (My Page) on
Wed, Oct 19, 05 at 16:40
| Hi Campanula, I posted a reply to you on the allotments site, I don't know if you've read it yet. I short a cross between a heuchera and tiarella is not an interspecific hybrid (plants in the same genus but different species), it's an intergeneric one (plants from two or more different genera), and these are far less likely to produce fertile plants. |
RE: hybrids
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| Plenty of plant hybrids produce viable offspring, and so are some animal hybrids, e.g. Glaucous Gull x Herring Gull hybrids in Iceland, Ruddy Duck x White-headed Duck in Spain, Cattle x American Bison ("beefalo") in North America Resin |
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