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kennedia hybrids?
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Posted by banyan NZ z10 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 4, 05 at 17:21
| Hi,
I've got K. macrophylla, rubicunda and nigricans all flowering together, in some cases with flowers actually touching each other. Is it likely these will hybridise? I like macrophylla so much that I'd rather remove the other species than risk polluting its gene pool.... |
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RE: kennedia hybrids?
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| you might have to try pollenating them yourself, often they have different pollenators so would never hybridise in the wild. Of course the feral honeybee sleeps with everyone, so if they are interested you may get hybrids that way. I suggest you just try hand pollenating. |
RE: kennedia hybrids?
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| Hi, thanks, you kind of missed the point, I am trying to avoid hybrids... Anyway, K. rubicunda and macrophylla come from opposite sides of Australia so 'natural' pollination is impossible. A rubicunda with more macrophylla foliage might be ok, but I wouldn't want them the other way, rubicunda size/shaped foliage on macrophylla. Very nice vines, I don't know why they are not more popular this side of the Tasman. |
RE: kennedia hybrids?
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| As far as I know, hybrids between different species of Kennedia are unknown in the wild, nor are there any named garden hybrids. Come to think of it, interspecific hybrids hardly seem to be recorded among any of the pea-flowered legumes except perhaps in the broom tribe (e.g. Cytisus, Genista, Laburnum), suggesting that there are pretty strong barriers against effective pollination between species. Compare this with genera such as Callistemon and Grevillea, in which hybrids occur frequently when species are brought together in cultivation. |
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