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Not nearly as drastic as the cabbage case, but to me it’s also interesting that there are three ancestral, wild species of citrus fruit – mandarin, pomelo, and
by Sharlin 8mo ago
Not nearly as drastic as the cabbage case, but to me it’s also interesting that there are three ancestral, wild species of citrus fruit – mandarin, pomelo, and citron – and all the popular modern cultivars are hybrids of those three.
- EdwardDiego 8mo agoThere's other wild citrus genes involved in there too for some species. https://www.jlauf.com/writing/citrus/ https://www.jlauf.com/writing/citrus/
- culi 8mo agoAnd there are also stuff like finger limes, kumquats, etc that don't at all fit into this citrus triangle