> because CITES >has updated their status to "endangered" in their native habitat, >Chile. > > Somehow I miss the point of restricting movement of an endangered plant outside of its native habitat. Would this only lead to increasing the sheer number of the individual plants that live on earth and male it less endangered in some regard? So if we grow the plant in Canada and want to return some to the "endangered" natural habitat we couldn't do this due to restrictions on plant export. Now I got it. Arnold