Everything about Graft-chimaera totally explained
In
horticulture, a
graft-chimaera may arise in
grafting at the point of contact between
rootstock and scion and will have properties intermediate to those of its "parents". A graft-chimaera isn't a true
hybrid but a mixture of cells, each with the
genotype of one of its "parents": it's a
chimaera. Hence, the once widely used term "graft-hybrid" isn't descriptive; it's now frowned upon.
Propagation is by
cloning only. In practice graft-chimaeras are not noted for their stability and may easily revert back to one of the "parents".
Nomenclature
Article 21 of the
ICNCP stipulates that a graft-chimaera can be indicated either by
- a formula: the names of both "parents", in alphabetical order, joined by the plus sign "+": » Crataegus + Mespilus
- a name:
- if the "parents" belong to different genera a name may be formed by joining part of one generic name to the whole of the other generic name. This name must not be identical to a generic name published under the ICBN. For example +Crataegomespilus is the name for the graft-chimaera which may also be indicated by the formula Crataegus + Mespilus. This name is clearly different from ×Crataemespilus, the name under the ICBN for the true hybrid between Crataegus and Mespilus, which can also be designated by the formula Crataegus × Mespilus.
- if both "parents" belong to the same genus the graft-chimaera may be given a cultivar name. For example Syringa 'Correlata' is a graft-chimaera involving Syringa vulgaris (common lilac) and Syringa ×chinensis (Rouen lilac, which is itself a hybrid between S. vulgaris and S. laciniata). No plus sign is used, because both "parents" belong to the genus Syringa.
A graft-chimaera can't have a
species name, because it's simultaneously two species. Although +
Laburnocytisus 'Adamii', for example, is sometimes seen written as if it were a species (+
Laburnocytisus adamii), this is incorrect.
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