tfdepot@aol.com if you want to shoot them a line yourself. Just try not to be too presumptuous or hot-headed. I know some of us can get a tad impassioned at times.
I have recieved no reply yet. I may contact some of the OTHER companies out there (just search for "sarracenia lily").
http://www.earthlypursuits.net/Merchan....de=SARR
I am drawing MINIMAL conclusions about Flower Depot's practices (or a related supplier). However, to me the odds that they have a greenhouse full of Leucs growing pitchers to be harvested once, maybe twice per plant, per season is more far fetched than the idea of a bunch of wankers trapsing around a bog, collecting pitchers. The latter seems as though it would yield more product than the greehouse method.
However, anything is possible.
Even if there are legit harvesters using private land (which could theoretically be considered a form of propagation?) there is no guarantee that they do not enlist people to collect further specimens from the wild -this might just be the paranoid side of me.
Here is an exerpt from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service International Affairs: Sarracenia spp. and natural hybrids:
It appears that at least two out of the six major harvesters cut from private or leased land, including bogs that have been augmented with species whose distribution ranges do not naturally extend to these areas. However, the majority of pitchers still appear to be cut from wild populations and concern has been voiced over the long-term effect of harvesting on these populations and habitats (Groves 1993).
Feel free to cite this, or more importantly read it yourself:
http://international.fws.gov/animals/sarracen.html
TONS of info on that page related to cut pitcher sales
-trevor