NYEric
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Ah technology! Wasn't this recently described?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Paphiopedilum-c...984?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e61f5fd40
http://cgi.ebay.com/Paphiopedilum-c...984?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e61f5fd40
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Just amazing...
Roy
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Ah China, where CITES means a big city.
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Marc
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Now we can only wonder if and how far over $1000,- this auction will go.
$1000? Its hideous! I wouldn't pay $1. And just which hideous qualities would you want to inflict on future hybrids? This one could have stayed in the jungle far as I'm concerned.
Bet you the price climbs over $2K.
Bet you the price climbs over $2K.
NYEric
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Yep. I have to check to see if I have one!
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Ernie
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Yep, it's a "buy it now".
John M
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Howzat
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I just wonder how a newly discovered species can get to USA??? Where is the CITES enforcer??? I know that we will never get new specie into Australia. So the CITES enforcers as described in Orchids Fever are just opportunists backed by machine guns ?? Where is Cribb and his loyal henchmen???
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Eric Muehlbauer
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These companies from China send plants un-inspected, in plain boxes, with no statements about contents. Any bills inside will not mention plants. While most of their packages get through, some get confiscated by customs. Most of these Chinese companies have statements saying that they are not responsible for confiscated packages. One of those sellers, Chinesegreen, used to be on Slippertalk.
NYEric
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I would never buy like that! :evil:
chrismende
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This is really sad! Not that the species in question is desirable to most of us, but how flagrantly this seller is operating! Somehow, I expect a bit more secrecy from an illegal activity!
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Howzat
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Well. well, well, that is a very laxed custom. Good luck to you. But canhii is from Vietnam. Do vietnamese companies do the same???
That is why Australia is well behind by 1 or 2 generations (6-10 years) in hybridising, compared to Taiwan, Japan, Europe and (USA???) who had their materials (new species) well in advance of other countries. We get our new materials in flasks. Even in flasks, our custom officers here are tough. A slight discoloring in a leaf and the flask would be condemned "to be destroyed".
From the Ebay offer: "Grew up in imitation of natural-style orchid plantations."
I love that term.
Howzat,
"Even in flasks, our custom officers here are tough."
Not sure, what you mean by "tough". For being strict, they should have expertise and knowledge. For being rough, they just need a uniform.
I love that term.
Howzat,
"Even in flasks, our custom officers here are tough."
Not sure, what you mean by "tough". For being strict, they should have expertise and knowledge. For being rough, they just need a uniform.
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Ernie
Guest
Knock, knock, knock... Here's your EMS box from China, sir. Have a nice day.
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Howzat
Guest
Last week I had 6 flasks confiscated because the top half of just one leaf in the flask is brown. And they said it is showing disease. Originally they gave me 2 options, send it back or destroyed. As I said to their senior plant pathologist that if there is fungal/bacterial disease, then it will show first on the agar media. I don't think it is viral, even if there is virus attack, it will show as streak on the leaf. He said I had a point made, but still asked me to take it to a quarantine station to be deflasked and grown for 3 months, which will cost a lot. Anyway I took the third option. That came to your last quote, because I think they don't have the expertise.
