[Arisaema-l] Import Plants from China

[Barry Yinger]

I bought thousands of dollars worth of plants each year from Chen Yi over many years for my nursery business. Some of her plants are wild collected and some are not. She will tell you which are wild collected if you ask. Keep in mind that she does plant rescue from the many areas that are destroyed for agriculture and industry. An American friend visited her in China and she showed him nurseries where she holds and grows plants, and areas facing destruction where she would collect plants. Almost everything I bought from her was nursery grown; it is easy to tell the difference because the root systems of collected plants are completely different to those of nursery grown plants. In the case of Arisaema, if the corms are clean, unmarked, and uniform in size, they are nursery grown. Some of her plants are mislabeled but sometimes you will get amazing varieties that way.

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Rareplants.eu <info at rareplants.de> wrote:
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> Additionally to what Charles already mentioned concerning notoriously wrong identification, the mail account of Chen Yi had been hacked in the past and some scammer asked for an advance payment. And of course, as a result the money was gone and plants never arrived. Chen Yi will always ship plant without prior payment. So make sure it is indeed Chen Yi you are dealing with and do not make any advance payment!
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> From my point of view and omitting all wrongly identified plants (the majority from her list), her range of true species is pretty limited and there is not a single one which has not been established in cultivation already. Additionally, all of her plants are wild collected, and sometimes these go into the thousands ...
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> Cheers
> 
> Bjørn
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>> David: You should know that Chen Yi is notorious for incorrect IDs for their plants, and they do not seem to care enough to correct the problem.. If you order a specific Arisaema species, the best you can be sure of is that it will likely be some type of Arisaema.
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>> Charles Hunter
>> Smyrna, Georgia USA
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>> On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:56 PM, DAVID LEEDY <djleedy at sbcglobal.net> <mailto:djleedy at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I am in receipt of an email and plant list from a Chen Yi in China, which includes some interesting Aroids, etc.  Although I will probably be collecting Aroids on the day of my death am not in sufficient health to put together an order for this.
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>> If someone will take this over, I will gladly send the information I have received to them
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>> David Leedy 
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