It hasn't had a negative effect on my "test cases."

I'm testing this on the Solanum genus.

The following are all in the Solanum genus, and are parent plants:

Potato:
Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)

Tomato:
Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum)

Eggplant:
Eggplants (Solanum melongena)

You'll notice that these are all in the same genus, and they all have a specific species. They each have child plants that have inherited their databoxes and common name.

Now you can see that other plants in Solanum that don't match any of the Solanum parents, are left as orphans. Example: Soda Apple (Solanum aculeastrum)

Now, I'm not going to do this, but if I add another parent plant in Solanum with no species, then all the remaining orphans would be added to that parent, and the children of the earlier three would be left alone.

I have a backup of the DB from the moment before I uploaded the code, but I'm gaining confidence in this code update. It looks like it's working well.

So far, so good.

I'll hold off until the baseline gets sorted out but I think Euphorbia is one genus that would benefit from one or more multi-species parent pages.

Very well could be. Heretofore there wasn't a way to separate a genus for moderating. It was all or nothing at the time. I originally wanted one or the other and would be more than happy with that. I love both the hardy spurges and the succulent Euphorbias, but there are just sooooo many species and such diversity in this genus. I might just jump up and do a *happy dance*.

Dave is this feature in flux? http://garden.org/thread/reply...
Many shows unrelated plants. Iris, roses, ...

That's an odd link, it's a reply link with Dave's post quote below.

Yes, thanks for that report Evan. That's really the one last big area I have to update. For now, it's broken (except for the daylilies one)

It is an odd link Sue. I quoted Dave's post a while ago and saved it as a bookmark.