Nerine x Lycoris hybrids . . . ?
J.E. Shields (Sun, 21 Nov 2004 06:17:32 PST)

Hi Dave and all,

According to Alan Meerow's DNA studies, the Nerines are embedded in the
ancient African clade while Lycoris are part of the Eurasian clade, which
also includes Narcissus and Galanthus.

Nerine is most closely related to Crinum, Amaryllis, and Brunsvigia, e.g.
bigenerics like Amarine.

Now I have seen plants 30 or so years ago, produced by Ms. Margot Williams
at USDA using embryo rescue, the reperesented such wide crossdes aas you
suggest. One was and African Crinum X Hippeastrum. If that cross can be
made to work, Nerine X Lycoris could too, I'd bet. But you would probably
have to be willing to use embryo rescue. Go for it!

The Crinum X Hippeastrum was a weirdly distorted plant. It looked like the
genes were not at all happy to be sharing the same cell nucleus.

Regards,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana

At 10:11 PM 11/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:

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