A hybrid produced by crossing plants of two different genera.
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In assembling and propagating such bigeners they would ensure their survival, not just as genetical freaks but in many cases as vigorous novelties of no small horticultural potential.
If the pollen from one of the genus Primula fertilises an ovule belonging to a flower of e.g., the genus Hottonia, a bigener would result.
In these bigeners the result generally resembled the female parent almost entirely.
Mr. Wilks exhibited a plant named Chionoscilla, which was considered to be undoubtedly a bigener between Chionodoxa and Scilla bifolia.
A bigener, containing as it does components of parents classified under separate genera, cannot logically be placed under either generic name.