Re: Hybrids
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: Hybrids
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:52:04 -0500 (CDT)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Neil Carroll <zzamia@hargray.com>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,
>
>... 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 <excriment> and dog
<excriment>. 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 <excriment> in which insects may lay their
eggs. Perhaps there is some type of species-specific mimicry at work
here.
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com
