Sabal xbrazoriensis is a natural hybrid of minor & palme

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:21 am

Since joining, I have kept going on and on whenever we discuss taxonomy that we need modern DNA-based research.
Finally, someone is doing it!
This paper shows exactly what I want to see done for such mysteries as Sabal "Riverside", "Louisiana" "Birmingham" and anything to do with Trachycarpus.

This one is on the mysterious Sabal "Brazoria" and shows that it is a hybrid of minor and palmetto, not mexiana, and that the hybrdization occurred thousands of years ago (i.e., is natural vs. something breeders did). They come to the edge of calling it a new species formed by hybridization but were not quite that brave and so left it (for now?) as Sabal xbrazorienses.

Here is the link to read the entire article:
http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/conten ... 27p025.pdf

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:12 pm

Cool, Erik, that someone's actually looking into it.

And you can give us an Executive Summary of what it means...

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:07 pm

Sure thing. I want to print it out, read it carefully, and ask the plant molecular geneticist I work with about the tricky bits

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:45 pm

nice find. Interesting read. I want to get one now!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:05 pm

Tim,
I think Steve on the HPS forum has some nice 5 gallon size ones he will ship. --Erik