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From: Bonaventure Magrys <bonaventure at OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject: Re: seeds
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They don't even know what they're destroying. Can't the seeds then at lea=st go back to Eric?
Bo

----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire at ISLANDNET.COM>
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2006 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: seeds

> >>I hope that they are not wasted and at least go on to be
> propagated
> >>by some organization or botanical garden.
> >>
>
>
> That's what happens to endangered plants and animals that are
> being
> imported illegally - they go to a botanic garden or zoo.
>
> The arisaema seeds were not seized because of CITES, though, but
> because of the U.S. worry about disease, so they were probably
> destroyed.
>
> We recently had a lecturer come in from New Zealand with seeds to
> give to the audience.  Seeds of woody plants require a phyto to be
> allowed in to Canada, so the seeds were held at the airport
> customs
> office until he was flying home, when they were given back to him.
>
> --
> Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> maritime zone 8
> cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
> sandy soil
>