On January 21, 2012, [email protected] wrote: > Can someone see the flaw in the forthcoming logic? > > If any species produced allelopathic substances inhibiting others of > its own species, would it not inhibit itself too? > The only way around this is if every seed produced an individually > different sort of allelopathy that would inhibit others of the species, > but not itself.
I think it usually is that the growing plants produce some substance that inhibits the germination of it's or other species' seeds. Otherwise, you're right, of course. Lis -- Lis Allison Pine Ridge Studio www.garden-on-the-ridge.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
