Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium specific issues

From: brian lee <lbmkjm at yahoo.com> on 2009.01.10 at 19:30:35(18882) Dear Aroid-l Aloha. I have some large growing Anthurium...no data, so I do not know if they are species or hybrids. They are beautiful. I do not want to hybridize them in case they are species, so I have attempted to self them. Does anyone have any tips for collecting the spare pollen and then, is there a preferred method of storage? I can barely get any pollen from the spadixes and a goodly amount tends to fall away. These are planted in a landscape, so I do not have the luxury of being indoors in a wind free environment. Some of the spadixes seem to set fruit, only to have them abort soon after. All advice would be gratefully received. Aloha, Leland +More --- On Tue, 1/6/09, mossytrail wrote: > From: mossytrail > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems > To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com > Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 2:34 PM > > I know this may open a box of worms, but I am curious > if > > these plants are said to evolve from one another then > why > > are these barricades even present? I can see this > being > > more difficult for other genus but for different > species > > it seems very odd. You would think more genus crosses > > would be more frequent and not as rare as they seem to > be > > as well. Just my thoughts. > > > That is part of the speciation process. As long as two > forms are still interfertile, someone can argue they are > still the same species. Two subspecies become two species > when they lose the ability to interbreed. > > As far as evolution, actually very little of it is the > result of hybridization. Rather the opposite: two > populations become isolated, and accumulate different > mutations in the different locations. This acumulation of > mutations eventually makes them different enough that they > can no longer interbreed -- at which time we say they have > speciated. > > Jason Hernandez > Naturalist-at-Large > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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