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Re: lythrum

Title: Re: [GWL] lythrum
When it comes to man-made "self-sterile" plants, there is NO way to be sure the plant will STAY that way.  If a plant is propagated asexually,  bud sports can arise that are fertile.  If the plant reproduces from seed, it's always possible it can cross with related species and produce viable seed that is an interspecific hybrid (and possibly more virulent to boot).  
   My thought would be to find native plants in your area that fill a similar niche to Lythrum, but are non-invasive, or are at least a natural part of the local ecology, and offer that as a possible alternative to the nurseryman.  To just condemn a plant that sells well without offering some way to make up the lost income is going to make you unpopular and probably won't stop the sale of the problem plant.
-Lon Rombough

From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
Reply-To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:40:46 -0500
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [GWL] lythrum

I have been told that the variety of Lythrum offered in garden centers
was SELF-sterile. However, it has been proven that it would cross with
the species!

Fran
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