"Oncidium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... result was accidental. With Origanum vulgare, however, a cross between flowers on plants propagated by stolons from the same stock certainly increased slightly their fertility. This likewise occurred, as we shall see in the next section, with Eschscholtzia, perhaps with Corydalis cava and Oncidium; but not so with Bignonia, Abutilon, Tabernaemontana, Senecio, and apparently ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin
... though the pollen-tubes penetrated the stigma. An analogous case has been recorded by M. Riviere,[307] with two plants of O. Cavendishianum, which were both self-sterile, but reciprocally fertilised each other. All these cases refer to the genus Oncidium, but Mr. Scott found that Maxillaria atro-rubens was "totally insusceptible of fertilisation with its own pollen," but fertilised, and was fertilised by, a widely ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
