Glossary
Hybrid
Growers call it a plant grown from the seed of a cross between two different plants, such as two species or two named clones, written mother × father. Growers say any two Trichocereus species can cross, and that seed from a named clone is hybrid seed too, because a clone cannot fertilize itself.
Words that go with it
- PereskiopsisGrowers call it a thin, leafy, fast-growing cactus used as grafting stock for seedlings.
- CrossGrowers call it putting pollen from one plant onto the flower of another, and the seed…
- Pollen parentGrowers call it the plant the pollen came from: the father of a cross.
- Scopulicola ("scop")Growers call it a species with very few ribs, essentially no spines, and glossy green…
- Seed parentGrowers call it the plant that carried the flower and the fruit: the mother of a cross.
- AcclimateTo move a plant to brighter light, drier air or colder weather gradually, in small…
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