Glossary
Cross
Growers call it putting pollen from one plant onto the flower of another, and the seed that comes of it; they write it mother × father.
Words that go with it
- HybridGrowers call it a plant grown from the seed of a cross between two different plants.
- Pollen parentGrowers call it the plant the pollen came from: the father of a cross.
- Seed parentGrowers call it the plant that carried the flower and the fruit: the mother of a cross.
- Mother plantGrowers call it the established plant that cuttings are taken from.
- LineageGrowers call it a plant's parents, and their parents.
- PollenGrowers call it the yellow dust the anthers carry.
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