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Jun 4, 2012 12:14 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
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>> Genetics can be very confusing

I take some perverse pleasure at the way plants seem determined to undermine every naming scheme or genus-species categorization. When I dug into Brassicas, almost everything used to be called something else, and the experts keep changing their minds even about what is or isn't the same species.

As if the plants were reading botany textbooks and laughing "Oh, THAT'S what you think, is it??!?? Well, analyze THIS!!". Then they go out and make some kind of wacky hybrid cross that contradicts whatever the most recent sytem was.

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