Mary Lou ,
Happy to see you are back with us on the OGD.
According to your post, Aileen, whoever she is, said:
"Any of these flasks that enter the US legally come in with CITES from the
country of origin."
WRONG!!!!!. Orchid flasks do come in without CITES,
because FLASKED ORCHID SEEDLINGS ARE EXEMPT
FROM CITES.
There is no official document of CITES providing
proof that flasked orchid seedlings are propagated from legally, or
illegally, collected orchid parents. CITES
appears to understand that "legally, or
illegally collecting of orchid parents" is an internal matter for
the country of origin.
I am aware that AOS ORCHIDS articles in the
past provided erroneous information re "CITES for orchid flasks."
If a country of origin wants to indicate that
flasked orchid seedlings are propagated "from legally collected
parents" I assume they are free do so on a non-Cites form of
their own design. There is no requirement by any importing country CITES
authorities to pay attention to it. then scroll down and read:
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