There's a person on eBay called Chase's Plants & Prints from McKee, Kentucky that is apparently stripping the woods around them of Cypripedium acaule. They are offering them them in lots of up to 300 plants with fifteen lots available. That's 4,500 plants! They also appear to be stripping these woods of live moss also. This area is in southeastern KY about 100 miles from where I live. I think that this should almost be a criminal action as probably 90+% of them will die within the first year. Is there anything that can be done about such a thing? Their username says it all: kyatvrider (Kentucky All Terrain Vehicle Rider). This was on their eBay Store info: "We sell moss for groundcover, pink lady slippers, southeastern gardens, ferns, blueberries, and dog woods as well as beautiful Animal Art Prints, My son whom is 6 helps me gather our plants and pick out the prints we sell." An example of their auctions are:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42218&item=2383101441 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4315102425 David Sizemore Kingsport, TN (Zone 6a) _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
