[OGD] Re: Virus and a Chuckle, natural hybrids

[Carlos Antonio Akselrud de Gouveia]

A good choice to sterilize things is to use a saturated solution (you 
put the salt untill it starts to deposit in the bottom of the solution) 
of Na3PO4. It will give you a pH of about 13, what is enough to kill 
virus and everething. Put your tools in the solution for at least 10 
minutes, wash them, and its ready. Sodium triphosphate is easy to find 
in chemical products stores.

About natural hybrids, when you make an hybrid, you are sure you have, 
for instance, C. skinnerii x C. arantiaca, only once of the both 
parents. When nature coss, you can have several crosses made. We have in 
Rio de Janeiro C. xvenosa = C. forbesii x. C. harrisoniana, and you find 
xvenosa very close to forbesii (only with some color difference) and  
xvenosa almost harrisoniana (some labelum difference), depending of how 
close they are of forbesii or harrisoniana population. None of them are 
pure, primary hybrids of C. forbesii and C. harrisoniana, and when you 
make the cross, you never have plants with the characteristics that you 
find in the wild plants.

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