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Does anyone care about conservation?
When I said,"Self-pollinating species that are allowable and
distribution of those hundreds (and sometimes thousands of plants) can help to perpetuate the species. The hurricanes in Florida have only taught us that native plants, if one were to rely on growing such plants only in a solo locality, would surely endanger the species." I was really thinking this: If X is the sole habitat of Y, and Y is on the Endanagered list and cannot be removed from X and no one has ever propagrated Y, and then X is wiped-out by a Tsunami, Volcano, or even man-made devastation; thus, what happens to Y? .. . . Pam Everything Orchid Management System http://home.earthlink.net/~profpam/page3.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aaron Hicks wrote: "Jack" ) queried thusly: Is there any group like that in the US On that activily protects, collects endangered orchids and brings them into production? Depends upon what "endangered" means. All orchids are at least CITES II, but that doesn't mean we're in a tizzy over Cattleya aurantiaca being extirpated, now does it? The Orchid Seedbank brings several new species each year into cultivation. I don't make a big deal about it, and they get sold off at reasonable prices. All plants are propagated from seed, and we have some plants available for sale that are either extinct in the wild, or well on their way. Some plants are not commercially available as wild-collected specimens due to geopolitical instability. Some are unavailable because they are difficult to grow, or not particularly attractive. Some people just don't care about because they want one to flower SOON 'coz they saw one at the society meeting they just HAVE to have one because the world might end in the 5-10 years it takes to get one from seed. Really it's just not that big of a deal. Some collector knows some guy who wants weird stuff, so he sells it to him- it gets imported, flowers out, gets pollinated, and the seeds are sent over to some lab. Then the propagules are panned out at some extortionate price because either: 1) It's a new species 2) It's not a new species, but the seller THINKS it is because there's an extra wart on the lip or something 3) Wild-collected plants are too big or cost an arm and a leg (Phal. gigantea, Bulbo. phalaenopsis) or 4) It's illegal as sin so EVERYONE wants one, although nobody will admit to having one What a whole lot of fun that must be- a plant only you can look at. And then we get panned in the press for being neurotic, rich, stuffy orchid growers. Imagine the indignity! So, yes- there's a short list of domestic growers that do that sort of thing. Troy Meyers at Meyers Conservatory, the Orchid Seedbank (me and hundreds of really nice donors), a handful of growers and the labs they work with, and then a short list of particularly knowledgeable and skilled professionals who probably don't want to be named. But they know who they are. The address in the header doesn't work. Send no email there. -AJHicks Chandler, AZ |
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