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Mar 29, 2012 7:19 AM CST
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Name: Dave Whitinger
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Currently, when you have a parent plant, you have to specify which species are included. Or, if you leave the species out, then it only covers cultivars that have no species.

For example, the parent plant for Roses has 'Rosa' as the genus and no species.

But that means that the parent plant doesn't cover species roses. (which is probably fine).

If you want the parent to also include certain species, then you have to include those species as a synonym in the parent plant entry.

Anyway, I desire to change this behavior so that the parent plant -by default- covers all plants within a certain genus. Then if you want a parent that only covers a certain species, you would add that species when you add the plant entry.

If I make this change, then all the current parent plants will suddenly match much more than what they match now. The Rosa entry, for example, will suddenly match ALL Rosa genus roses in the database, regardless of what's in the species field. The databox information will be copied into the newly matched plants.

Does anybody object to this?

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