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Hybrids of what? Usually, If you were the first to make a N. x 'Judith Finn', you would pollinate the N. vetchii with N. spathulata pollen. I can give you more detail if you explain exactly what you want to know...
Wow, so i can make a hybrid. I thought they did by genetic enginering .Can you get the pollen from a dandelion and put it on a venus flytrap and get sum kinda muntant seed.
It doesn't have to be the same genus, as long as the plants can cross, the offspring is a hybrid. Granted, any plant that can do this should be in the same genus, but because naming is a little weird it doesn't always work out that way.
Hybrids Don't have to be the same genus, as many orchid hybrids are from different genera....It has something to do with the chromosonal count....I'm not really sure what the relationship is... Hyrbids definately have to be of the same...er..family? (is family the one right over genus? I foget my high school biology).
Hybrids are created by cross pollenating plants of 2 different species within the same genus. So crossing different cultivars (ie. Dente, Akai Ryu) of Dionaea muscipula (VFT) wouldn't be a hybrid. But for instance crossing different members of the Sarracenia genus with one another (like alata x psittacina) would give you hybrid pitcher plant seed. For some genuses like Sarracenia, all the species contained within that classification are able to cross pollinate each other, allowing them all to be crossed producing hybrids. For some other genus such as Drosera, not all species can cross pollinate. This has to do with the fact that typically equal numbers of chromosomes (large pieces of DNA, or genetic material) are required to create viable seed (there are exceptions to this, but they require nature or chemicals to cause a plant to have multiple copies of their chromosomes...a very rare event in nature). I have never heard of plants from differing genuses (but the same family) being successfully hybridized, although I know someone attempted to cross Dionaea with a Drosera.
To Clarify: Normally, only plants in the same genus can successfully hybridize because the DNA must line up fairly well. A borderline cross produces a plant with an odd number of chromosomes that because of this can not breed in turn.
Most hybrids however, are fertile.
Usually the only way plants are close enough in genetics to breed is within the same genus, but because genera are defined by physical appearences and not by genetics (untill very recently) occasionally you will find plants from different genera that can create a hybrid, this does not, however, mean that any two plants can interbreed, only certain ones.
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