Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:51:28 -0800 From: Rick Hyde <rah@netcom.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg517$foo@default> Subject: Re: Re: Is Cephalotus still on CITES
>>
>>I don't remember seeing an answer to this on the listserver. However I
>>have just received a 1997 catalogue from an Australian nursery. To
>>paraphrase, their nursery propagated Cephalotus are not available to
>>customers abroad because of the prohibitive time and expense of
>>getting CITES permits. So to to choose deliberately emotive
>>vernacular, it seems as though the score is still:
>>CITES Jobsworths 1 Plant Lovers 0
>>
>
>It probably won't be on CITES for long. The Australians are getting their
>necessary internal approvals before submitting it for removal from the
>Appendices.
>
>The key, however, with Cephalotus, is that no one should need to go to
>Australia to get it! It's available in cultivation all over the US and Europe.
>
I just received Allen Lowrie's latest catalog. With the catalog was a
flyer which advertized, among other things, C. follicularis in groups
of 4, bare root, packaged and airmil posted overseas for $40.00 AUS.
Cheers,
Rick
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