Subject: Turkey's rare orchids
From: "Cereus-validus"
Date: 10/8/2004 3:22 PM Central Daylight Time
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Turns out that number is wrong. There are on the website 148 photographs of
68 species of orchids in 18 genera NOT 148 species!!!

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You are not sure. You are only speculating.

If we knew for sure, it sould be less interesting. Isn't a lot of the point of
this newsgroup to speculate on gardening questions?



What do you think the chances are that the endemic species, especially the
rare ones, are protected and unavailable?


Unfortunately, that's not as likely as it should be. A lot of orchids that
should be protected aren't.

Though the chances of obtaining seed for tissue culture and eventually growing
in a garden are quite high. And if anyone on the list is in Europe, their are a
number of sources there for terrestrial hardy orchids, possibly including some
from Turkey (and definitely including some closely related species). I believe
the article mentioned an Orchis species, Orchis is supposed to be one of the
best for growing in gardens. It's just not commonly available in the U.S.
(though I do know of a Canadian nursery that imports some species grown from
tissue culture to the U.S)

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