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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

The whole process was duplicated artificially and the result was identical to wild P. domestica.

I obtained some 4x P. spinosa with the idea of creating some of my own P. domestica type hybrids.  The 4x has the larger fruit of the two (2x and 4x) forms.

Ah!  That's how I must have gotten the idea during my Googling that P. domestica had been specifically bred. 

Easily confused,

Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA Zone 9b