Re: Hybrids

From: Don Martinson llmen at execpc.com> on 2000.05.01 at 02:52:04(4493) >-----Original Message----- >From: Neil Carroll To All Friends, > >My little bit of input into this--no one has as yet touched deeply on Mother >Nature`s strategies for PREVENTING hybrids, this is what interests me, > +More >... the bees were specifically >attracted ONLY to the scent of that specific orchid! I've often joked with friends that the difference in smell between the flower of my Amorphophallus konjac and Typhonium (=Sauromatum) gutattum is like the difference between cat and dog . In nature, parasites are often quite species specific and it should come as no surprise that there might be differences in preferences of the type of in which insects may lay their eggs. Perhaps there is some type of species-specific mimicry at work here. -- Don Martinson Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@execpc.com

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