Intergeneric Hybrid: Sequoia x Taxodium?

I recently read that there was a rumour that somene in Russia had done it. Has anyone heard about this? If it is true, I'd like to know if it is evergreen or deciduous or semievergreen or just confused.

(There was a related report that "Taxodiomeria peizhongii" was DNA tested not to actually be Taxodium x Cryptomeria)

Can anyone shine any light on this? Or fuel a nice rumour if nothing else?
K. James

Resin?

Well, I've finally had to spray and burn for all the seedlings of my casual hybridizing attempts. The Ginkgo biloba x Araucaria araucana babies just got to be too much.

The original Ginkaucaria bilocana 'Yellowstone Fire' was OK:

•architecturally branched as Araucaria
•foliage held tightly to stems, but fan-shaped as Ginkgo
•leafed out green with fine creamy edges uniform across plant, maturing to yellow filigree
•brilliant inferno of fall color (not as much fun to rake up as parent)
•ornamented with cloak of holiday-light like fruit, persistent through winter, sans odor

When the green/yellow bicolor leaf reversals, weeping, fastigiate, cueball, and purple laceleaf forms started showing up among the progeny, I decided that I'd had enough.

Give me my invigorating and indomitable Juniperus virginiana any day.

Welcome to 1 April Productions, Inc. . . . ;-)

Resin

Wow, I am impressed by the way he stayed serious the whole way.
I take it that means "no" in the "Taxiquoia?" from Vicarious Visions?

No fuel on the rumour from me...

I did once read that (with the increased possibilities due to genetic engineering) someone once created a hybrid between a carrot and a frog. So I suppose anything's possible, if you can make the hybrids directly without involving normal reproductive methods.

Resin

The biggest question is this, Resin; Would you steam it like a carrot or deep-fry it like froglegs?

A whacko (argue if you want) named Eduardo Kac (I think it is spelled that way), who is one of those fringe-artists but mixed with a scientist, put some Jellyfish genetics into a rabbit for just what everyone needs- a glow-in-the-dark bunny.

Christmas trees are next. I'm sure you've read that some conifer has been laced with that jellyfish bioluminescence gene. Now you won't need lights, I guess...

Novel plants are great and all, but does anyone else get the chills about a vining fir? Or a kudzu with larix hardiness?

Kenton~This is spine-tingling. My kids have a Goosebumps movie of a guy who turns himself into a part-man, part-plant clone, called "Don't Go Into the Basement", very scary stuff!

Here is a family tree. Sequoia x Sequoiadendron or the formerly extinct Metasequoia* would be more likely. It would be posible if they had the same chromosome numbers.

http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/10/1480/F1

*Metasequoia was named from American fossils, decades later was found in China.

Excellent link, thanks.

Here's the full article (pdf file):

Gadek, P. A., Alpers, D. L., Heslewood, M. M., & Quinn, C. J. 2000. Relationships within Cupressaceae sensu lato: a combined morphological and molecular approach. American Journal of Botany 87: 1044–1057

http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/reprint/87/7/1044.pdf