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Thanks for the Season's Greetings Jan!
Anyway, I've been thinking about N.* coccinea and N.* wrigleana.
On your list they both have the same mix of parent and grandparent
with the only difference between them being that N.* coc has N.*
hookeriana as the female parent while N.* wrig has N.mirabilis
as the female parent. This don't seem right to me since N.coc
looks a lot more like N.rafflesiana while N.wrig looks like N.
mirabilis (as it should).
The only problem is that I can't find mention of N.ampullaria *
N.mirabilis (or visa versa) hybrid. Now this seems rather amazing
to me when you consider the large number of hybrids involving
these three species; N.ampullaria, mirabilis and rafflesiana.
They all = the same formula of 1/4 amp, 1/4 raff and 1/2 mir.
Do all these hybrids look different? If so, I guess the parentage
of N.* coccinea would be correct; but it just seems improbable and
looking at the plants, incorrect.
On a completely different subject, I'm going to be on vacation
until Jan 2nd. I'm not going off the list but I won't be able
e-mail anyone until after the 2nd or so.
Thanks and Happy Holidays,
Dave Evans