store selling dried sarracenia

[Presto]

look about 1/3 of the way down.

I'd like to write a polite letter asking them to stop selling the poor babies.  But I don't know where to start.  I don't even know what kind of sarracenia they are.

can someone help me out?

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Presto Leucophyla pitchers are used alot in flower arangements. I wish they would stop using them too, but if they are growing the plants then there really isn;t anything we can do. Now if they are collecting them from the wild then something could. I have read an article where they were wild collecting hundreds of leucos for that trade. I do not know where to start either I hope someone can help.

 

[setep]

Very sad! But, in a world where blowing up babies is a valid religious exercise, I guess it's to be expected.

 

[Mokele]

I've bought other items from that vendor before (animal parts), and asked specifically about the pitcher plants. Sadly, the person I spoke to didn't know if they were from a gardener's propagation or from the wild.

Mokele

 

[dgower82]

wait, where the heck is that at? I know about the whole baby=hiv cure. But never have I heard of that one.

 

[jimscott]

They look like they might be leucophylla pitchers. That's a lot of money for dead pitcher art.

 

[dgower82]

Yeah, they are definatly S. leucophylla. Also everything there is real expensive there.* I could make most of that for free. The leaves are simple, leave them in a pool over winter.

They also sell seahorses and pipefish.....
*originally came out as (exmale reproductive organive)

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

Bravo setep!

"There will always be good men doing good things and there will always be bad men doing bad things - but for a good man to do bad things, now that takes religion"

Are there even enouch leuco's left out there for them to be wild collected?

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

I saw something on TV or over the interest where there are huge fields of those, and the article or program(I cannot remeber) said the 4 wheelers they used to collect hundreds of pitchers, leaving the plant in tact but surely setting it back, were ruining the bogs. I don;t know if its still being practiced or not. I hope they are nursery collected and not wild. The populations are definately stressed enough.