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Hi,
If anyone among you has purchased legal
Phragmipedium kovachii flasks from Peru, please
send a current picture of YOUR Pk flasks, or YOUR de-flasked Pk seedlings, to my private
e-mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will
share them in private e-mails with anyone
who requests them from me.
{There is a reluctance on the part of those in
the USA who did purchase such Pk flasks,
to show me what
they purchased.One can only imagine their reasons.}
Before you send US$ 1060.- for 50-60 Pk
seedlings, plus $ 160.- for unnecessary
CITES documents, you better make certain you know what you are getting for
your
money.
Unnecessary CITES Documents is
correct.
The Peru INRENA CITES official, Ing. Antonio
Morizaki Taura, who's signature
appears on the
unnecessary CITES export documents for
Phragmipedium kovachii flasks, seems not only
unaware of the current CITES
rules, he also
appears to be totally
ignorant of how CITES works.
Fact is that not one
single CITES member Country determines
on its own which species require
CITES and which ones do not; let
alone implement such ill conceived notions.
CITES has made it abundantly clear that at present
there is not one single flasked orchid species,
regardless in which
Appendix it is listed, that requires CITES documents. Here is what you will find
in CITES document Appendices I, II, and
III:
ORCHIDACEAE
spp.:
(For all of the
following Appendix-I species, seedling or tissue cultures obtained in vitro,
of the Convention) Aerangis ellisii; Dendrobium cruentum; Laelia jongheana; Laelia lobata; peristeria elata; Renanthera imshootiana; Pahiopedilum spp.; Phragmipedium spp.
See: http://www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.shtml Scroll down to Orchidaceae spp in App I.
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