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wild to cultivated changes?
Kathy,
Actually I did not see the Nova program myself, just heard someone talk about it. Sometimes (like this one) I regret not having a TV antenna or cable. However, most of the time I think we've made a wise choice: I know if I had TV reception I would spend hours watching it, and then I couldn't spend all this time here on rgo, and read as many books as I do, etc. Joanna "K Barrett" wrote in message news:z6QUb.186773$sv6.989867@attbi_s52... That was a wonderful Nova program, wasn't it!! Made me start wondering about the same thing. I know Alexis Pardo Isla once said that the orchids we grow are selected for those that will grow in flasking medium. So that would be a basic difference between those we have in captivity and the wild type. K Barrett "J Fortuna" wrote in message ... This is not off topic even though the beginning may sound like it is, so please bear with me: I recently heard that when wolves are tamed, one of the side-effects of taming is that their fur turns a lighter color. I forget exactly what the explanation was, but I think it was something like the same chemical substance being responsible for anxiety/fear/wildness in character as well as darkness of fur. Leap in thinking from wolves to orchid plants ... This made me wonder about some of the effects that cultivation has on orchid species. I would guess that a cultivated orchid species might grow bigger and live longer than its wild counterpart of the same species, etc. That at least would seam logical to me, since the cultivated species are likely to be fertilized more regularly, and the environment is more likely to be adjusted to be closer to ideal conditions than might occur in nature, if the grower knows what they are doing. Also I know that plants within the species won't be exactly the same, and the orchid grower might decide to cross two orchids that are in the same species and share some trait that does not occur in all orchids of this species to try to promote this trait which might have gotten lost in the wild (where natural selection or chance might have caused this trait to not be propagated). Any other ideas? Either based on your experience, your knowledge, or your hypothesizing on this subject? I would be interested in finding out more. I wonder if there are any effects that cultivation has had on orchid species that are less obvious/logical (similar to the lightening of fur in wolves, which I would never have guessed if I had not learned about it). Are there any good examples of orchids where the same species in cultivation tends to be quite different in some significant way from its wild counterpart? Thanks, Joanna |
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