In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| I was aware of the case of male apomixis in Cupressus dupreziana, but it
| appears to even weirder than I knew. According to this article in
| Arnoldia if you fertilise Cupressus sempervirens with C. dupreziana
| pollen what you get is seed of C. dupreziana pollen.
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| http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.ed...ticles/636.pdf

Thank you. I am suitably boggled. That could develop into a most
interesting and potentially invasive form of parasitism - a sort of
embryonic cuckoo's approach - don't tell Monsanto :-)

| But then vertebrates are also weird - see Rana esculenta.

Indeed. I am half-expecting someone to find an oddity among even
the mammals one of these days.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.