Nepenthes certainly, Sarraceniaceae possibly to varying degrees, but
Dionaea, many Drosera, Utrics and Pings are very easy, and even
Cephalotus aren't impossible in a domestic setting.
It's all too easy for industrial tissue culture "factories" to churn
out millions of TC'd plants in a very short time - the Garden Centres
of Europe (and probably further afield too,) are full of Dutch clones
of all manner of plants including CPs.
I do believe there should be protection for breeders hard work and
often not inconsiderable investment in developing new hybrids/
varieties/whatever, but the "Royal Red" saga is taking it way too
far. Having said that, if I had excess red-petioled Dionaea (which
I don't,) I wouldn't hesitate to trade them - it wouldn't conceivably
be worth their while to sue hobby growers on the other side of the
world on what would be very shaky legal ground indeed (ie: the onus
of proof would be on them to show that my plants were "Royal Red"
clones, which of course they aren't.)
Happy growing,
Peter
Obobservation: One adult VFT can theoretically produce over 1,000,000 plants
by micropropagation within 12 months!
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