Accidental hybridisation of fern

[gregorsamsa]

hey folks, my ferns have accidentally hybridised, having a normal java fern/windelow and narrow fern/windelov mix.

surprising, the variation is displayed on the new rhizomes.
my question is, how often does this occur and how to propagate/nurture it in future?


the pics are follows, bote that the normal fern/windelov is still young.

http://www.arofanatics.com/members/g...sa/hybridfern/

[budak]

Having a different frond form emerging from the rhizome isn't hybridisation.... it's called polymorphy. Hybrids occur only when spermatozoa from one fern species fertilises the ovule of another. In anycase, java fern is a single species. You don't call the offspring of a husky and chihuahua a hybrid.

The 'forked end' traits is apparently not an uncommon feature in Microsorum pteropus. Perhaps some certain growth condition triggers it or it could be expressed only by populations collected from a certain locale. Java fern is so widespread (from Japan to Java) that it is not surprising that the species (or complex as modern taxonomists would call this motely bunch of phenotypes) exhibits highly differing growth forms. So far, it seems the key ID characteristic (the spores and embryo) of all these forms indicates their common taxon.

[gregorsamsa]

okay
thanks alot for the clarification and explanation

cheers

jiesheng