While visiting my friends shop the other day he was talking about CITES paper work and proof of his plants origins and full documentation of his propagating the plants in his own nursery and TC lab.
After getting home and chilling out a while I got to wondering. Do persons such as I (and the traders on this board) need this paper trail when mailing App. 1 and App 2 species within US borders even though they are artificially propagated? N. rajah and N. khasiana are both App. 1 Nep species and the rest are App. 2.
I wonder even more after hearing the rumors of the AOS having people arrested for presenting Slipper orchid species plants for judging at shows without a corraborating paper trail and accompanying paperwork for their plants.
...just paranoid and looking for someone to dump gas on my fire!
After getting home and chilling out a while I got to wondering. Do persons such as I (and the traders on this board) need this paper trail when mailing App. 1 and App 2 species within US borders even though they are artificially propagated? N. rajah and N. khasiana are both App. 1 Nep species and the rest are App. 2.
I wonder even more after hearing the rumors of the AOS having people arrested for presenting Slipper orchid species plants for judging at shows without a corraborating paper trail and accompanying paperwork for their plants.
...just paranoid and looking for someone to dump gas on my fire!