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Re: Hybrids??

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2001.10.23 at 18:55:01(7660)
In a message dated Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:47:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "brian williams" writes:
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> Hello! I read in a e mail and on a website that Alocasia Hilobeauty was a
> cross between a caladium and a Colocasia?
If so, then it is not an Alocasia; if designated by any genus at all, it would have to be Colocadium or Caladiocasia or some such melding of the two. Alocasia is a valid genus of its own, which cannot be created by hybridizing other genera.
Jason Hernandez
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