Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:20:09 PST From: "Stefan Ploszak" <imduff@hotmail.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg372$foo@default> Subject: Re: Sarracenia hybrids
>>> >Q3: When making a hybrid cross between Sarracenia species, does it
>>> >make a difference in the offspring which plant produces the seed?
>>> >
>>> Not as far as I know. There is probably a convention as to which
plant
>>> (the plant bearing the pollen or the plant bearing the seed) is
listed
>>> first but I can't remember which way round it is.
I posed this very question to a well known, but modest Sarracenia
hybridizing expert. He finds that a seedling's appearance isn't
influenced by which parent is the pollen donor/seed barer. Hybrids are
simply intermediates of each parent. Selfing an F1 hybrid produces
seedlings which tend toward either parent and everything in between.
My understanding of the convention for listing a hybrid is that the
seed barer is listed first. If it is not known which parent is the seed
barer, the parents are listed in alphabetical order.
With the mild weather we're having my thoughts are on hybridizing
Sarracenia, but no flower stalks yet.
Spring is near,
Stefan
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