Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 tel: 847-835-6841 fax: 847-835-1635 email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Diane Whitehead Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:04 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Time travel and ancient plants Hi All: A quick clarification on the NAPCC. It contains wild and cultivated plants. Both groups must be verified by an expert to be true to name. Theoretically, a plant society can partner with a botanic garden to host one of the NAPCC collections. In reality, the challenges of creating a working relationship that will span multiple human generations has been overwhelming. " The North American Plant Collections Consortium (NAPCC) registers collections at botanic gardens and arboreta. All the plants must be of known wild provenance. It is an expensive program, as the institution must pay the expenses of an expert to come and certify the collection. Diane Whitehead" Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden Glencoe, IL 60022 Visit our website at http://www.chicagobotanic.org/ for more information. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/