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JB_Orchidguy
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I was surfing ebay yesterday and came across a lady selling Cyp acule. I emailed her asking if they were garden produced or wild. This is her response.
I can see saving the plants from logging sites and development site, and if they are on your land then you can what you want with them, but not just taking from the wild. So I send her this message back.
I then get this message back.
So now. What is the status of these plants? Are they only endangered in certain states? Are they illegal to dig up on the roadside without permision, even if they are getting mowed down? I thought they were a threatened species in the US not only threatened in individual states.
Would you have handled this different? I admit I may have been a little accusatory in the emails. I just think it is bad to get them from the wild and then sell them when they take so long to grow and I am under the impression they are endangered.
Josh
they are taken from the wild, logging sites or developments
I can see saving the plants from logging sites and development site, and if they are on your land then you can what you want with them, but not just taking from the wild. So I send her this message back.
Pink Lady's Slipper is a very attractive and popular plant because of the strange and beautiful pink flower. It is also rare and needs to be left alone in the few places it is surviving. The plant is actually an orchid with the alternate name of moccasin flower. The plant has two wide basal leaves that stay horizontal and a single stalk growing to about a foot high bearing the pink flower. Transplanting from the wild is strongly discouraged because of the rarity of the plant and the almost nil chances of success. New plants are difficult to start because of the need for symbiotic fungi in supping nutrients to the seed. It takes years for the new plant to develop leaves for supplying its own energy. The plant requires low pH, nutrient poor soil and other special conditions for successful establishment.
They are also an endangered species and illegal to dig up from the wild. Private land gathering is discouraged and rescues with permission are better than letting the plant die.
I then get this message back.
I really wish people like you would research before emailing someone, first of all, they are not endangered in the state of Ky, secondly I do not get them from government land, as I stated these are transplanted from logging or development sites, They are mowed down by the county and state work crews, as for transplanting them I always include some of the soil for insure the fungi, I know what I am doing and have been doing this for 7 years now, so research each state before you harrass peopleeee
So now. What is the status of these plants? Are they only endangered in certain states? Are they illegal to dig up on the roadside without permision, even if they are getting mowed down? I thought they were a threatened species in the US not only threatened in individual states.
Would you have handled this different? I admit I may have been a little accusatory in the emails. I just think it is bad to get them from the wild and then sell them when they take so long to grow and I am under the impression they are endangered.
Josh