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Old October 21, 2008   #7
Worth1
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Hybrid
1 Botany a plant produced from a cross between two plants with different genetic constituents. Hybrids from crosses between crop varieties are often stronger and produce better yields than the original stock.

A Kellogg’s Breakfast crossed with a Black Cheery is a hybrid.
A black Cherry pollinated with an other Black Cheery is not.


2 Zoology an animal that results from the mating of parents from two distinct species or subspecies.

A Mule is a Hybrid.

A Black Angus crossed with a long horn is a hybrid.
Two Long horns that get together and decide to have a calf have baby Long horns, not hybrids.

The loose use of the term hybrid is what through me off to began with.
In that same link that I read it said that Mole sauce (Verde) pretty much has to have Tomatillos in it.
This would leave you to believe that verde and mole is the same thing.

For one thing mole is not verde, verde means green and most mole sauces are not green.
This came from a university link and it goes to prove that even academia can be wrong with its wording.

I’m sorry and I don’t mean to be argumentative but if we go this direction with the term Hybrid then a lot of people are going to get confused.

What should have been said is that the Tomatillo needs a companion plant of the same variety to pollinate.

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