Subject: Re: Cypripedium "reproduction"
From: [email-masked] (Roland Gronroos )
Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 09:18:07 +0100
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

In article <[email-masked]>, Jack Sanders
<[email-masked]> wrote:

>  
> I have heard that someone is successfully cloning or otherwise
> reproducing Cypripedium orchids, such as C. acaule and C. calceolus,

There has been a series of articles published in "Svensk botanisk
tidskrift" describing in vitro methods for multiplication of serveral
orchid species among these are Cyperipedium calceolus. The author starts
the cultures from sterilized seeds. The text is in swedish but there are
english summary and usually also english figure legends.

> with enough success that they are being sold in certain nurseries.
> Is this true or is it just a tale concocted to cover the source of
> endangered plants stolen from the wild?

I do not know if these orcihds are sold via nurseries.

-- Roland Gronroos