Collecting and extinction

From: Wayne Morrow (wmorrow@flash.net)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 20:35:18 PDT

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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:35:18 -0500
From: Wayne Morrow <wmorrow@flash.net>
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Subject: Collecting and extinction

If one collects from the wild a plant that is not endangered, how many
does one take? Consider one of my favorite wild flowers, May Apples.
(I saw someone selling them on Ebay...my wife and I argue about mowing
them here.) Do you take a percentage?

Could S. oreophila have become endangered by crossing with another
Sarracenia? I have seen numerous cultivars that have oreophila in their
genetic background. If S. o. crosses with another S, then it obviously
doesn't produce as many o. seed. If the cross has some advantage over
S. o., say it sets more seed or withstands a drought better, would not
a stand of oreophila eventually be replaced by the cross?

Robertivore, if those D. somethings are hardy in zone 7 send them on!

I bought some D. somethings from Home Depot or somewhere, maybe packaged
by Gubbs Orchids that had some Nepenthes something that were supposed to
be D. brevifolia. (I can't help it! I hear this tiny voice saying "Save
me, save me!" and for three bucks...) One is anglica or intermedia, the
other looks like rotundifolia or capillaris. How do you tell these
little guys apart?

Thanks,
Wayne

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