what the heck is an embryo rescue? i have read before that people have crossed turkeys with chickens. that sounds like a pretty wide cross to me. not sure if that's true, and i have never seen or heard of such mixed offspring. tsuh yang --- "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com/