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Post by BarryRice on Aug 20, 2007 19:20:51 GMT
Hey Folks,
If any of you visit the Butterfly Valley Botanical Area, in California, and notice what might seem to be small poaching holes, don't panic. I have been working with the staff that oversee the area, and we have been removing the non-native carnivorous plants that hobbyists have been dumping at the site. The Forest Service staff have already removed the Sarracenia that have occasionally been planted there, and together we are now working on removing the hybrid Drosera plants. I expect the damage from the removal will be healed over by the spring.
Butterfly Valley Botanical Area is important not only for its carnivorous plants (Darlingtonia californica, Drosera rotundifolia, Utricularia minor, and U. macrorhiza). It is important historically since it is here that Rebecca Austin studied Darlingtonia in the 1870s.
To date, all the non-native carnivorous plants that have been put in Butterfly Valley have low reproductive rates. For example, the hybrid Drosera I mentioned is a sterile D. filiformis hybrid. However, our big concern is that someone may plant something relatively noninvasive at the Valley, and unintentionally introduce a serious weed like a non-native Utricularia or even a soil pathogen.
In order to discourage additional plantings, I would like to mention that the plants pulled out of Butterfly Valley are being destroyed. Please do not plant carnivorous plants at this site---they will be uprooted and killed.
Barry
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 1:15:45 GMT
thats sad that you kill the plants......
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Post by Aidan on Oct 9, 2007 2:38:38 GMT
They should not be there in the first place. Removal of non natives while it is still possible to do so, is the right thing to do.
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Post by Alexis on Oct 9, 2007 15:33:18 GMT
That's true, but would it not benefit somebody out there to be given some free plants instead of destroying them?
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Post by Aidan on Oct 9, 2007 16:08:23 GMT
In order to discourage additional plantings, I would like to mention that the plants pulled out of Butterfly Valley are being destroyed. Please do not plant carnivorous plants at this site---they will be uprooted and killed. Alexis - I think it's a very deliberate policy designed to send a message.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 22:09:21 GMT
yeah i guess its for the better that the plants be killed
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