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Polystichum talamancanum X speciosissimum.

A NEW HYBRID! Here you see Dave Barrington puzzled by the fern I found. Still waiting on the genetic results to come bat but we are 90% sure (Dave is the worlds leading expert on the genus Polystichum) that it's a new hybrid.

Since it's a hybrid between a 4n and a 2n this is a 3n sterile hybrid. So it's sterile, like a mule, and not it's own species, but it's a natural hybrid, not a man made one.

Location: >.> Wouldn't you like to know?

Here are the two species that had "plant sex" to make this abomination.

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Is study going to be done on this new hybrid? I would like to know it can be reproduced in the greenhouse setting. Its a nice looking fern.
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Yeah, they're going to be analyzing it's enzymes and it's DNA. Both are really good at pinpointing hybrids. You could take the spores of the one fern and the spores of the other and plate them on agar in the hopes that the gametophytes would crossbreed but it would be kinda blunt trial and error, and would take a long time before you knew which were hybrids and which were just one species or the other.

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That. Is. Awesome. :)

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Thank you!

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