Foxtail x Royal.

[ErikSJI]

Can it happen?

[Jimbean]

try it

[ErikSJI]

I intend to. Just curious to if anyone has the chromsome match up on these guys? I tried looking on Kew but have been unable to access it for the last two days.

[Palmdude]

Check out the link and chart on this thread,

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/41665-hybrids/

[Silas_Sancona]

If possible, Foxtail X Royal would be a pretty cool cross. After glancing over the list Palmdude referenced, I'm drawn to the thought of a Carpoxylon X Chambeyronia cross. Interesting...

-Nathan-

[Mandrew968]

Can NOT happen.

[quaman58]

Anything's possible. But they are so removed from each other geographically speaking, (which has a direct impact on their genetics) that I suspect the chance are nil.

[DoomsDave]

Who knows? Try it and see?

[Cikas]

I intend to. Just curious to if anyone has the chromsome match up on these guys? I tried looking on Kew but have been unable to access it for the last two days.

Chromsome number is not that important for plant hybrids.

Even in animals, species with different chromsome number can make hybrids ( but many of that hybrids are sterile ).

How close some palms are genetically is way more important.

[palmaddict]

Mules and hinnies have 63 chromosomes, a mixture of the horse's 64 and the donkey's 62. The different structure and number usually prevents the chromosomes from pairing up properly and creating successful embryos, rendering most mules infertile.

There are no recorded cases of fertile mule stallions. A few female mules have produced offspring when mated with a purebred horse or donkey.[9][10] Herodotus gives an account of such an event as an ill omen of Xerxes' conquest of Greece in 480 BC: "There happened also a portent of another kind while he was still at Sardis,—a mule brought forth young and gave birth to a mule" (Herodotus The Histories 7:57).

Since 1527 there have been more than 60 documented cases of foals born to female mules around the world.[9] There are reports that a mule in China produced a foal in 1984.[11][12] In Morocco, in early 2002, a mare mule produced a rare foal.[9] In 2007 a mule named Kate gave birth to a mule son in Colorado.[13][14] Blood and hair samples were tested verifying that the mother was a mule and the colt was indeed her offspring.

Patrick