Hello: When talking about the Fritillaria species which are cultivated as chinese herb medicine. It still composed by several species even in the national standards. http://db.yaozh.com/tupu/tujian/0115.pdf http://db.yaozh.com/tupu/tujian/0176.pdf http://db.yaozh.com/tupu/tujian/0373.pdf http://db.yaozh.com/tupu/tujian/0444.pdf http://db.yaozh.com/tupu/tujian/0042.pdf Su-Hong-Ciao Taiwan... ----- 原始信件 ---- > 寄件者： Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> > 收件者： Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > 副本： > 寄件日期： 2013/5/25 (週六) 7:54 AM > 主旨： Re: [pbs] chen-yi nursery > > Although a number of interesting plants have entered cultivation in > North America and elsewhere via Chen Yi's nursery, it is widely > thought that some of the material is collected in the wild. I have > heard people justify this with the argument that so many plants are > endangered by wild collecting for Chinese herbalism that taking a few > for horticulture is relatively benign. That doesn't seem like a valid > argument to me. > > Moreover, most people who have received plants originating with Chen > Yi have found that many of them are misidentified, and that the same > species can be sent under several different names. The only ones I > ever bought were Fritillaria species obtained through a middleman in > the UK, and they were almost all misnamed, though I did end up with > viable bulbs of two species (not the five I paid for, and not with > the names they came under). > > Jim McClements wrote an article on his Chen Yi acquisitions (he > specializes in woodland plants) and titled it "The Chinese Grab Bag." > He acknowledged, however, that a couple of items from the grab bag > were extremely good! > > Jane McGary > Portland, Oregon, USA > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/