Beitrag
von Constantino Gastaldi » Sonntag, 2 November 2008, 11:56
I do agree with you. There should be efforts in order to keep the pure strain but the way to do so may lead to the hybrids or pass close to them. If the hybrids as for instance the hybrid orchids Laeliaocatleyas are much more resistant and much more prettier and easier to be found than the true plant... and the true one will live unmolested by poachers and smugglers. Today here we find the laelias on rocks and trees even in the urban trees and nobody cares to pick them simply ´cause the hybrid in the floricultirist is so cheap and pretty.... In native habitats, in native grounds an hybrid may preserve the true species, It happened so with orchids and history repeats itself! ..but this is just a maybe,OK?
Also, and this must be very disastrous, the plants taken as true outside Brazil, in the their big majority makes me " lagh mich caput" ´cause the guy points out the plant and the worldwide well known producer, produces and presents something tottaly different than the plant, the true one. I see this. Some of your true fosterianas and brevifolias got strange names or abandoned their clothes long ,long, long ago. Even in respectful well known Botanic Garden it is easy to find errors, mistakes, confusion, misleads and so on and on. Here we also committe many mistakes but the poacher and the smuggler and both can be a well known collector or a famous scientist this one is bound to fake intentionally!!!!!!!! For one good reason " MONEY!!!!!! OR MONEY AND FAME OR JUST FAME.
I just saw a picture of a well known German Botanic Garden and the tag said clearly: Dyckia altissima and the plant was clearly a Dyckia brevifolia. I tough when I saw the pic: Oh finally a pure brevifolia, it so hard to see it in pics outside Brasil...but then I saw the tag.....oh, no!
Imagine, meine chatz, the big babel tower......
If you buy, if you pay for a Dyckia from Brazil to a Brazilian guy .....hummmmmmmmmmmm be extra extremely caution for two big reasons:
By the Brazilian LAW it is a crime to send any Dyckia abroad!!!! These are all endangerd plants!!!!! IF YOU ARE CAUTGHT WITH SUCH A PLANT IN YOUR CAR AND THE PLANT IS NOT POTTED YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL. Our prisons are famous for their cruelty. They are Dante´s inferno! You with a single plant will have no right for bailing!!!!!! Imagine!!!!!
Plants from the Cerrado are extremely saughtafter abroad and some guys smuggler the plant easely via Brazilian Post as the Sedex Mundi and also via some other companies as DHL and so on. The guy will send anything as being that one so desired plant by the guy in Bucarest, Tokyo, Amsterdan if money is in between them. Botanic gardens that trade plants? Hummmmmmmmmm........ Be very atemptive! Think twicely! When money or notoriety is playing its role one must not forget: diamond is not glass nor ice.
So the pach to the reallity to a good and honest reality may pass close to the hybridizing as it has done with the orchids and more recently with the cacti and still more recently with the bromeliads and now an updated plant: Dyckias.
The same thinking: Who do you think is the one who sets amazonian on fire or cuts down the forest? I know who: the one is the rich healthy guy in North America, Europe, Asia and so on. Those who feed on Brazilian beef and builts with Brazilian timber (houses and furniture)are the ones to blame. If no one feeds on our beef the large white cattle would not go up the country into the amazonian devasted and burned jungle..... if the dyckia hybrids were at plenty no one would care for the migger and difficult to adapt native species. Or if we managed to culture the true ones by the millions who would face scorpions, mortal mosquitos, snakes, murderes and the LAW?
We are all linked our house is the same and now I see, talk, listen to my next door neighbuor and my next door neighbour is YOU!
Good mornig! Come close to the fence....let us talk..let us see each other....gimme your hand.....I am your neighbour....sure I am....Cheers.