RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Mr Thwaites says that the pollen of Fuchsia fulgens. CUL-DAR205.7.251. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.
The brown crayon number '17' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Hybridism. See Natural selection, p. 446.
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Mr Thwaites says that the pollen of Fuchsia fulgens take on F. coccinea, but not the reverse, good as one [modern] confirming
F fulgens & coccinea are very species quoted by Newman
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case of Kolreuter will publish in Linn. Transact. Wonderful case of hybrid fuchsia which threw out one radicle, 4 cotyledons & two plants with stems joined above ground, of the two parent, true forms. —
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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