Dr Braem wrote >"The main point to make here: if we (taxonomists) are expected to >take hybrids serious, we must be absolutely certain that
>a) the hybrids are that what the hybridizers say it is >b) the parents are documented >c) material of the parents (pieces of leaves, root tips, illustrations of >the plants (both vegetative and floral) etc. are put at our disposal. >d) the hybrid lines are started new and are not based on old >(therefore uncertain ) plants" When the first man-made orchid hybrids were produced in the 19th Century, a taxonomist (was it Dr Lindley?) exclaimed: "You will drive the botanists mad!" Now the taxonomists seem ready to drive the hybridisers mad! Poetic justice maybe? :) Nick Miller Rotorua, New Zealand
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