Thank you for your interesting and polite comments on my somewhat heated email
on orchid names. I would, however like to ask the question as to exactly what
constitutes a species? The standard version which I was taught in public school
was that if two organisms can mate and produce fertile offspring, they are
considered to be of the same species. What about multigeneric hybrids and other
fertile crosses? Even excluding human intervention: What about the natural
hybrid Cattleya Guatemalensis? What about the natural bigeneric hybrid LC
Elegans? Did the orchids forget to read the book?
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