Post by kiwiearl on Oct 1, 2014 14:26:07 GMT -5
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I remember reading on the UK forum about a huge plant of S. flava being found in a very secluded wetland area surrounded by woods on a central parcel of a large farm in the English countryside.....
Now here in the states all bets are off. I've seen a local yokel post that he has planted non-native sarracenia and hybrids in the new Jersey Pine Barrens "just to piss-off the conservationists and biologists". And I have an entomologist friend who says he has seen "tall pitcher plants" down there. I'm trying to get him to show me where.
....but who knows what is in the mud on visitor's boots now, as they travel from site to site.....
Waxy, the point you raise about material on footwear (and by extension, clothing) is utterly valid. Conceivably seed trapped in the upturned cuff of a pair of trousers or a shirt could be unintentionally delivered to the wild from a greenhouse. Again, here in NZ, we have some significant instances where invasive organisms have made ingress into new habitats via boots and waders. In the case of waders many lakes previous free from particular exotic water weeds, particularly Elodea and water net, Hydrodictyon reticulatum, have become choked and the invasion of the diatom, Didymosphenia geminata, remains an enormous threat to our flowing water courses. All users of the water bodies, notably fishers, are officially urged to meticulously clean waders following immersion in one before entering another.
As for that guy introducing plants to the Pine Barrens? What a fool. As you say, it'd be great to find out where and whip them out of there. On that, are there efforts to keep the Pine Barrens as "pure" as possible over all or are they in fact full of a wide range of introduced plants? I know little about them other than Chrissy and Paulie Walnuts chasing a Russian through the snow....
And, that is a really interesting story on the English S. flava.