Post by don on Nov 14, 2014 0:32:07 GMT -5
Thanks Mike for the marvellous pics and updates on the sarra sites. Interesting the height of the long lid alabamensis? It looked taller in the pics like some sort of alata cross? Also have you also got the redder versions as pictured in Don Schnell's second edition?
And boggrower I understand your comments and I guess the best point is that we are on this forum for the same interest..That is our passion for sarras
I am currently a member of a number of Facebook forums where the common theme is create your own sarra.
I consider the 'create your own plant' has been with us since the release of Adrian Slack's two volumes many years back.
I started hybridizing sarras in the late 1970's just prior to the release of Adrian's first volume in 1979. I had imported wild collected plants from Peter Pauls Nurseries in New York State in 1975. The plant stock they provided were very nice clones, obviously plants that were many years old. I still have those clones that I figure must now be at least 50 years plus of age. Maybe a lot older than that?
My first hybrids were alata x flava, moorei and an exornata and those plants are still with me today. After the mooorei I figured I couldn't improve on the original parent species and gave up attempting to do so after that cross.
The site collected plants we hold today may not provide us sufficient genetic material to match the natural occurences in the wild and either way, their original sites will never return.
However we are likely the only folk around who care about the current and future prospect for sarras and I figure while we are around, there at least remains the opportunity for some future for these endangered plants.
And boggrower I understand your comments and I guess the best point is that we are on this forum for the same interest..That is our passion for sarras
I am currently a member of a number of Facebook forums where the common theme is create your own sarra.
I consider the 'create your own plant' has been with us since the release of Adrian Slack's two volumes many years back.
I started hybridizing sarras in the late 1970's just prior to the release of Adrian's first volume in 1979. I had imported wild collected plants from Peter Pauls Nurseries in New York State in 1975. The plant stock they provided were very nice clones, obviously plants that were many years old. I still have those clones that I figure must now be at least 50 years plus of age. Maybe a lot older than that?
My first hybrids were alata x flava, moorei and an exornata and those plants are still with me today. After the mooorei I figured I couldn't improve on the original parent species and gave up attempting to do so after that cross.
The site collected plants we hold today may not provide us sufficient genetic material to match the natural occurences in the wild and either way, their original sites will never return.
However we are likely the only folk around who care about the current and future prospect for sarras and I figure while we are around, there at least remains the opportunity for some future for these endangered plants.