Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 8, Issue 13

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In a message dated 1/8/2006 6:02:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but  it is already gone from its native habitat, that is only because so many people were obsessed with hybridizing it and keeping it alive at home.  I haven't heard of condos or highways being built on Pk hillsides, just thousands of obsessed orchidists talking about how amazing the plant is.    We orchid growers haven't come out of this situation smelling like roses. Note also that the hillsides were stripped long before artificially propagated plants could possibly have been generated in large numbers, so we can't blame CITES for preventing legal trade this time.  We have seen the enemy and he is us. Nick -- Nicholas Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED]   I wonder how long it will be until the well known Ecuadorian Orchid nursery will take until they make their mature Phrag K available from their well stocked greenhouses where they are hiding the thousands of plants that they stripped from the site in Peru with their 4x4 truck

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