Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 55, Issue 20

**L* M* <l*@earthlink.net>**

Carlo wrote:

> I don't know ANYONE who would include your third or fourth  
> generation, humanly-selected, unconnected to place and time,  
> "improved" plant as a native. That's not unlike considering me,  
> third generation, of diluted and mixed Sicilian blood, never-been- 
> there, a "native" of Sicily. While I might like it to be true, it  
> just ain't so (although I freely claim the heritage).

This leads me to a related question--

No plant has been anywhere "forever." I wouldn't argue that the  
plants we now consider native just sprang up spontaneously. So, when  
does an exotic become a native?

We make it more simple with people. Of course, there are some places  
where a second or third generation descendent of a newcomer is not  
considered a native, "one of us." But that's a different matter.

It has always seemed to me that discussions of "native plants"  
involve theological and sociological as well as botanical aspects.
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