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echinacea hybridizing howto

16 years ago

Where would I find beginner information on hybriding? I was reading about the chicago botanical gardens and how they were crossing cone flower. I have no idea how to identify a male from a female echinacea. The wiki here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinacea_purpurea, states that the plants are hermaphroditic but the description of the process here, http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0525/p14s01-liga.html , states otherwise. Can someone please explain this?

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nonmember_gw
16 years ago
disk florets bisexual; ray florets neuter
espressogeek
Original Author
16 years ago
Can you explain or does someone have a picture? Is there a good beginner home botany type book that I can pick up?
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maineman
16 years ago
EG,

"Can you explain or does someone have a picture?"

When the CS Monitor article said, "Ault then brought pollen from a male plant and applied it with an artist's paintbrush to the flowers on the central disk's flowers of the female plant", they probably meant that he brought pollen from a male plant and applied it with an artist's paintbrush to the stigmas of the disk florets of the female flower.

This article has some information on composite flower anatomy.

MM

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