>In plants dandelions [Taraxacum officinale] is notorious for its capability
>of self-fertilization, and with a "reductio in absurdum" one could say that
>every individual would be a species of its own.

Many orchids are selfpollinated... some inevitably so (in these spp
the flowers never even open). And they are capable of multigeneric
hybrids.

Most animals do not seem to breed intergenerically, though mysticetes
(baleen whales) do.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
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