Taiwanese plants may come with documents, but the FWS may still
have problems with them. I asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Office
of Management Authority not more than a month ago about buying a couple of
flasks; they asked about the origin, and I said they were from Taiwan.

Evidently the plants used for propagation in Taiwan were removed
from Vietnam under dubious circumstances, so even if they have legit
export permits, they are (as one other writer here put it) "fruit of the
poison tree." I suppose that applies to hybrids as well, but I really
don't know. They suggested that plants from Europe in flask are OK, those
from Taiwan aren't.

Go figure. Don't jump on my ass for any of this- I'm just
parroting what I was told. It's a legal quagmire.


-AJHicks
Chandler, AZ