The hybrid strawberry cross is interesting. Supposedly once one hybrid is made, the resulting offspring often have lower fertility barriers to forming hybrids with further species.
It's a shame that they're just thrown away as curios by the researchers. I like to pretend that instead there's a whole black market trade in completely new species made off the back of these. The alternative is sadder.
The hybrid strawberry cross is interesting. Supposedly once one hybrid is made, the resulting offspring often have lower fertility barriers to forming hybrids with further species.
It's a shame that they're just thrown away as curios by the researchers. I like to pretend that instead there's a whole black market trade in completely new species made off the back of these. The alternative is sadder.
Silverweed and strawberry sounds a bit like potato and tomato. One grows a tuber, the other a fruit.
That's an apt metaphor! I'll have to use that in the future.