it was probably easier to deduce which parent contributed what when primary hybrids were introduced. Complex hybrids would be a different story. I have made plenty of crosses where I have assumed that the pod parent would visually predominate in appearance ( somewhere ), and have been proved wrong. Complex hybrids generally have more species composition and these can present themselves to varying degrees in progeny. Leaf colour, mottling, patterning; shape, size, frequency, number and colour of blooms are all impacted. And then there are zygos where it appears that however many species/intergenerics are introduced, it still looks like a zygo.
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