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PHRAG
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Every now and then, someone mentions how hard it is to find a certain slipper in cultivation, or other orchid species for that matter. Just as business runs in cycles, plants come-into and go-out-of favor with breeders and therefore collectors.
I was thinking about this. With CITES regulations preventing the collection (or at least making it more subversive) of orchid species from the wild, does that mean that some species might possibly disappear from collections alltogether? Have some already? Is that a bad thing and in which cases? Which species no longer appear in any sort of sustainable wild habitat and depend on human intervention to prevent them from extinction? Does line breeding change plants enough that re-introducing them into the wild would be a bad idea in the instance that someday a species faces extinction?
Let's discuss.
I was thinking about this. With CITES regulations preventing the collection (or at least making it more subversive) of orchid species from the wild, does that mean that some species might possibly disappear from collections alltogether? Have some already? Is that a bad thing and in which cases? Which species no longer appear in any sort of sustainable wild habitat and depend on human intervention to prevent them from extinction? Does line breeding change plants enough that re-introducing them into the wild would be a bad idea in the instance that someday a species faces extinction?
Let's discuss.