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Why Venus Flytraps and Pitcher Plants Cannot Hybridize: Genetic Barriers in Carnivorous Plants

Intergenus Crosses Fail

Dionaea and Sarracenia are too genetically distant. Interspecies breeding works within Sarracenia, Drosera, Pinguicula, Nepenthes. Anecdotal Dionaea × D. regia hybrids produced non-viable seedlings.

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