Heliconius elevatus, a species of Amazonian butterfly, was born from a cross between "Heliconius pardalinus' and 'Helicionius melpomene' This is enough to seriously shake up our representation of what we usually call the tree of life. In plants, speciation by hybridization has been observed in many cases, with two plants giving rise to a third. To achieve this, the third plant has to combine the genomes of the two