Botanic Gardens and Seed Exchanges
Diane Whitehead (Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:01:27 PDT)

On 7-Sep-11, at 1:56 PM, MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER wrote:

The Botanical Society of South Africa stopped offering seed from
Kirstenbosch to US members years ago.

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I'm a bit vague on this - I think giving free seeds for overseas
members was stopped, but there is a catalogue of seeds one can buy. I
applied for this, but didn't order any because of a caution in it
based on the Rio Convention about not being allowed to select or
hybridize their seeds. I think there was something about not selling
the resulting plants, too. I occasionally select (though my climate
usually does this without any effort on my part), hybridize and sell,
so I didn't buy any Kirstenbosch seeds.

Well, not from their catalogue, anyway. When I visit Kirstenbosch and
buy seeds in their shop, there are no restrictions on what I do with
the resulting plants.

Diane Whitehead
Canada