50% Allotropa virgata (Sugarstick), 50% Hemitomes congestum (Gnome Plant), 100% Alien-looking and Bizarre! It doesn't exist yet but it will!

From a botanical perspective, that would be pretty cool looking. Both plants rely on myco relationships, I wonder if we'd see hybridization occur from new invasive pollinators, or a hybrid created by mycelium networks. Both are native to my area. Perhaps it's time to experiment.

>>509605286
I thought about it many years ago, doesn't exist yet but it should be invented (By me)! I want to use the pollen from the Sugarstick onto the stigma of the Gnome Plant.

>>509605286
That's why hybridization probably wouldn't work. Being non-photosynthesizing, they have gone down evolutionary paths that require pretty intense specialization

>>509605493

Bummer you're in Europe and we're on 4chan, it'd be ezpz to collect, get phyto and export. Good luck in your botanical adventures anon

>>509606061

Yeah crossing the two would be extremely difficult, if not impossible without laboratory conditions to ensure optimal conditions and timing, if the genetics are even compatible enough to produce a hybrid. Both plants utilize mycelium networks for nutrient absorption and both do flower, so I could see it happening. I've grown some fungi, but never studied closely enough to understand how hybridization works.

Ya know, while we're here, if you got some sources, I've been a bit bored with the other botanical topics I usually read.

>>509606104
Thank you fren!

>>509606061
They're sister genera. Consult previous phylogenetic graphs.
>>509606409
I'm guessing they are compatible, question is what would their hosts be?

>>509606409
Hmm, I don't have good sources, but it's the same story for Monotropa (Indian Pipes) near me. It would be extremely difficult to make them do what you want, let alone actually germinate a hybrid. And because the energy at hand is so low every stage takes months and years, even when the environment is correct.

>>509607382
I want to do it in a spot where I will remember where the specimens are, preferably with both species close to each other, have a suspected hybrid, California Pinefoot!

>>509603827 (OP)
I'm glad you gave up on fish and started focusing on plants like I suggested.
Look up protoplast fusion for really fun Frankenstein shit you can do with plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_fusion

>>509609807
They've done it with Humans and Mosquito cells. Imagine if they turned them into eggs!

>>509609807
Whenever I accidentally crack a cannabis branch off a plant I just pour some rooting gel on the break and twist-tie it together and the plants heals back together.

>>509610293
It never works beyond the culture phase with animals of any kind, but plant fusions that are even slightly related will often grow into functional (if often sterile) plants.
Sometimes a protoplast fusion will make a plant that produces fertile seeds, without pollination, that are random hybrids of the two parent species.

>>509610732
I don't think (For legal and ethical reasons) they have put a fused somatic cell nucleus into a enucleated egg. The precedent would be Dr. Moreau tier.

>>509610706
I bet there will be some good medical significance with the Sugargnome.