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The Slipper Orchid Forum shows pictures
of Pk's in bloom at a well known Ecuadorian orchid collector.
Someone else then responds by asking: "
I just wonder why nobody selfing or cross this
ecuadorian kovachii yet."
This is how rumours get started.
To date, to the best of my
knowledge, no Pk habitat has been found in Ecuador.
If ever it should happen, be assured that
the world will know within hours.
In the past few years, the
Peruvian Ministry of Natural Resources, INRENA, has on several occasions
confiscated flowering size Pk plants and other orchid
species of many genera on their way to Ecuador and elsewhere. These were collected illegally
in Peru.
Phragmipedium kovachii
habitats were discovered in the Department of Amazonas, Northern
Peru. INRENA, has not yet issued a single export permit for mature Pk plants.
At this moment, any blooming Pk
outside the Peruvian nurseries of Alfredo Manrique and Manolo Arias
is an illegal Pk. Legal Pk seedlings, propagated only by Centro de
Jardineria Manrique and Peruflora, need to grow 5 to 7 years
before they bloom for the first
time.
In 3-5 years from now, when
the legal Pk seedlings have become flowering Pk plants, it will be very
difficult to know if a flowering Pk is legal or illegal. I have a feeling that
no one will waste any time then to find
out.
Peter
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