Re: [IGSROBIN] Geranium arboreum

Rats, wouldn't you know it.  Alas about Hawaii.  Between the pigs, the
mongooses, and the rats the island has been devestated, I agree.

This is now a challenge, however:).  I will find a seed or two of arboreum
if I have to go to Maui to do it.  I have a few contacts in the islands who
are used to obtaining far more exotic substances than geranium seeds.  Maybe
they can be of help.

Thanks for the information.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Parer <geraniac@PACBELL.NET>
To: IGSROBIN@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <IGSROBIN@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Geranium arboreum


>Dear Robin:
>
>I believe Geranium arboreum is on CITIES, and all collecting of seed,
>except with permission and for research purposes, is forbidden.  It is
>endangered because wild pigs and cattle have devastated its habitat.  I
>have seen the ground rototilled by pigs around the base of the plants.
>We need to get some botanical institution interested in growing it.  It
>suckers, and probably can be propagated from roots.  The flora of poor
>Hawaii is in such a mess.  It is very melancholy to see the scale of
>invasion there by foreign plants and animals.
>
>Sorry for the gloomy news.
>
>Robin Parer
>Geraniaceae Nursery
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