SO ENDS this first weekend contemplation of plant hybrids. Historical reversals of plant species assignments have not been rare, and the case study of the rampantly hybrid species rhododendron through an exhaustive study of traits illustrate how slippery the assignments can be. This is further confounded by transgressive segregation which is the formation of extreme phenotypes when compared to the parental lines, making the hybrid resemble a new species.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022