I have to agree with you on this one Fred. Personally, I have tried dozens of time to cross South African beauties with South American ones, it never worked. But, some Asian genera work with South African ones and I can tell by their foliage they are different from their parents. On Thu 23. Feb 2023 at 18:38 Vlad Hempel <vlad.hempel@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with you Bob. The 1st link though is useful, even if the thesis is > from 1999. > > > > On Thu 23. Feb 2023 at 18:27 Fred Biasella via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> Even with embryo rescue I didn't think Hippeastrum x true Amaryllis would >> be possible. I'm certainly no geneticist but I would think the chromosome >> incompatibility wouldn't allow for a viable offspring. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> On Behalf Of Robert >> Lauf via pbs >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:21 PM >> To: Lesley Richardson via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> Cc: Robert Lauf <boblauf@att.net> >> Subject: Re: [pbs] Idk how this exactly works >> >> >> >> That article might be a bit misleading. That red flower in the photo is >> a Hippeastrum, whereas xAmarine hybrids involve Amaryllis. I would think a >> garden writer would know the difference, but maybe we can blame the photo >> editor. >> Bob >> On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 10:43:54 AM EST, Lesley Richardson >> via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: >> >> With photos of hybrids... >> >> https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/… >> I apologize for spamming the list but I learned something new from this >> request. Amazing hybrids and really quite beautiful! >> Lesley >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum latest: >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum latest: >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… >> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…