Re: fern spores available

Brian,

Do you have any spores of Microsorum fortunei left?

Mary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Aikins" <brcazagrps@comcast.net>
To: <ferns@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ferns] fern spores available


> Fernetters,
>
> It looks like I'll be the spore distributor.  Please contact me off line
if
> you're interested in Robert's generous offer of free Chinese spores.
>
> By the way, All the ferns on my Fernpics website are from Robert's earlier
> spore distribution.  My count of 16 did not include volunteers and species
> that have died since the picture was taken (photo date appears when
hovering
> cursor over picture).
>
> Brian Aikins
> brcazagrps@comcast.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Newman" <plantboy@earthlink.net>
> To: <ferns@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [ferns] fern spores available
>
>
> > Hi Brian--   WOW!  On that web page, there were more than 16 different
> > ferns
> > presented, so some of those were from the spores I collected and some
were
> > from other sources, right?  GREAT WORK with those! I'm really pleased to
> > see
> > that their presence here in the U.S. has continued....I hope some others
> > who
> > grew the spores were as equally successful!  I'd be very pleased to send
> > these new ones to you as the distributor---THANKS!  And I have 3 more
> > species to add to the list.....
> >
> > Unknown fern, wild--growing in the cracks between the bricks of a stone
> > wall
> > along the sides of a small man-made pond at the home of the poet, Du Fu,
> > in
> > Chengdu, Sichuan
> > Pyrrosia sp., wild--I hope this leaf has viable spores on
it.....couldn't
> > even be sure by looking at it that what I was seeing was spores, though
I
> > think they were;  this was from a plant growing on rocks on West Mtn.
> > (West
> > Hills), Yunnan  (it looks like a plant in a photo in one of my reference
> > books....that one was identified as P. davidii)
> > Microsorum lucidum???--I think that's what this is, thanks to one or two
> > Fernet members previously looking at photos I e-mailed them;  from a
plant
> > I
> > have growing which was purchased in the spring of 2002 at an outdoor
plant
> > market in Kunming, Yunnan
> >
> > So Brian, can you e-mail me your mailing address?  You can do it
offline,
> > if you want, to plantboy@earthlink.net      Thanks again.  Take care.
> > Robert
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ferns@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of
> > Brian Aikins
> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ferns] fern spores available
> >
> > Robert,
> > I'd be glad to distribute the spores.  By the way, I had pretty good
luck
> > raising the spores you shared a few years ago.  Sixteen of the 23
species
> > are still going strong; the rest either never germinated or were too
> > difficult to grow without a greenhouse.  See pictures at
> > http://photobucket.com/albums/v353/fernpics/ .
> > Thank you so much for collecting an offering the spores!
> > Regards,
> > Brian
> > Everett, Washington
> >
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