Speak for yourself, Spanky.

Your version of "we" is you yourself and nobody else. You don't speak for
everyone here.

If you know the answer to a question, that's one thing but idle speculation
only adds to the confusion and does much more harm than good. If you don't
know the answer to a question, you should let someone who does know reply
instead of you making lame guesses.

Most hardy orchids are not good candidates for tissue culture nor rapid
artificial propagation.


"theoneflasehaddock" ****off wrote in message
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Subject: Turkey's rare orchids
From: "Cereus-validus"
Date: 10/8/2004 3:22 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

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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theoneflasehaddock