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HIfarm
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Paukaa, HI, USA zone 12b
Bellucia sp. pollination
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October 16, 2018, 09:23:37 PM »
If any of you have ordered Bellucia grossularioides from Jim West (or other Bellucia sp for that matter), it appears that they are self-incompatible so at least a couple need to be planted. I will enter the link to the paper in the library section.
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KarenRei
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Re: Bellucia sp. pollination
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October 16, 2018, 11:09:46 PM »
Yep. Ran into this a while back while working on my database:
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aa/v16/1809-4392-aa-16-0197.pdf
Whoever chose to use that font in a scholarly paper deserves to be lashed, but apart from that, it's a good read. The incompatibility is gametophytic rather than the flowers being protogynous or protoandrous, so you can't artifiicially cheat the timing. And there's no apomixis or parthenocarpy.
Note that you can make fruit with few (but viable) seeds by crosspollinating B. grossularioides and B. dichotoma. There appear to be natural hybrids like this in the wild. May be a desirable characteristic.
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