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S. oreophila

  • #41
Well, the nursery apparently works faster than Fish and Wildlife's customer service.
Without further ado, the LEGENDARY, the INCREDIBLE, the MASSIVE, the CONTROVERSIAL
SARRACENIA
OREOPHILA*

PHILA
PHILA
PHILA
PHILA
PHILA
PHILA




Ok so yeah, not impressive yet. But it will be.




*This plant was in no way obtained even slightly illegally, I made a friend in Oregon and he decided to ship it to me for free. I canceled my order with the nursery.
 
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  • #42
*This plant was in no way obtained even slightly illegally, I made a friend in Oregon and he decided to ship it to me for free. I canceled my order with the nursery.

Well when trying to cover yourself I would make sure you don't contradict yourself:

Well, the nursery apparently works faster than Fish and Wildlife's customer service.

The nursery you canceled your order from works fast and got you this plant quickly? lol.

xvart.
 
  • #43
Simple, my friend works at the nursery, he was sympathetic to my plight.
Duh.

(see, i got it both ways and neither way)
 
  • #44
  • #45
Interesting, er, photo :-))

But it's pretty clear you have an oreophila on your hands!

Happy growing!
 
  • #46
Not to fuel this heated thread, but if someone was to make an order from a CP nursery, pay full price for several 'regular' plants, like Sundews and VFT's, pay the standard shipping and this nursery were to add, at no charge, a S. orio, would that be "legal"... in the opion of most everyone???
 
  • #48
Well, one who buys plants in winter doesn't expect much. At least oreos have big phyllodia. I'm sure if I ordered any other sarrs, they'd be even more pathetic.
 
  • #49
Well, it took some time, but it looks like my inquiry finally got through.

Dear Jason,

Thank you for your inquiry regarding endangered plants. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service's mission is working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife,
and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.


The Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 United States Code, Section 1538, prohibits the
sale of endangered and threatened species in interstate or foreign commerce. Regulations
found at 50 CFR Part 17.61 and 17.71 detail the prohibitions on the interstate commerce in
endangered and threatened plants (respectively). Those prohibitions apply only to plants
delivered, received, carried, transported or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce and
in the course of a commercial activity. Thus, merely paying the shipping costs would not
be illegal as it does not rise to the level of a commercial activity. Further, under
17.71, seeds of cultivated specimens of species treated as threatened shall be exempt
from the prohibitions relating to plants, provided that a statement that the seeds are of
"cultivated origin" accompanies the seeds or their container during the course of any
activity otherwise subject to these regulations.

 
  • #50
Nice one.

Still seems a bit of a silly rule. In theory you could ship S.x oreophila x (oreophila x flava) all over the place, even though it would be almost pure oreophila and look just like one.
 
  • #51
Well I got orephilia but right now it is boring but later I hope it looks good right now it is sleeping in a shed
 
  • #52
Winter has been a season of yawns for me as well. After a nice Sarr haircut (by both my scissors and the hungry deer) you can hardly see anything at all except a few browning stubs of once glorious pitchers.
 
  • #53
Well, might as well post an update to this dusty ol' thread. My oreophila came out of
dormancy rather nicely. One of the pitchers' tops didn't manage to fully deploy, but it still
managed to catch bugs. A rather nice sized pitcher recently poked its way up, as seen in the
pics. What you can't see, however, is the HOLE that some low down yellow bellied
%*$&#$&&%$&#* caterpillar decided to chew in it while it was still developing. I was almost
in tears when I saw my nice new pitcher so defiled. It's still catching flies though.

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  • #54
Nice plant! Love the VFT Jungle behind it. I got a free oreophila [shipping and everything! as well as extras] from Nepenthesmatt as a gift. I got it a few weeks ago and it just started putting up replacement pitchers. I'm very excited!
 
  • #55
mine looks exactly like yours.
 
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