Re: Collecting Louisianas/Was: Winter Kill


	Does anyone know if there are any laws banning the collection of 
wild iris specimens?  I also subscribe to Orchid List Digest and there is 
discussion on wild collection.  Most states have laws banning the 
collection of wild plants. It would be best to check before collecting.  
If there are specimens available from private sources, then why collect 
from the wild and risk the depletion and possibly extinction of the 
species from the habitat.

	Just my 12 cents worth (inflation you know) :}).

Jim Smith	

On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Rodney A. Barton wrote:

> Lonnie,
> 
> You wrote: 
>  
> > I will be going the first week in June.  Too late for bloom??  Too 
> early 
> > for seed??  What about those gators??  
> 
> Yes to both!  It would be a good time to transplant but you will be doing 
> it blind (not knowing what you are getting).  As with other things, 
> collecting iris in the wild is generally to be discouraged.  The LA iris 
> have lost a lot of their habitat and are threatened in some places, gone 
> in others.   If your main interest is in getting started with Louisianas, 
> I'll be happy to get you started.  I even have some collected varieties 
> which are guaranteed beauties and typical forms of the species. 
>    
> If you insist on collecting, be kind.  Don't take much, and only from an 
> area where they are plentiful.   An increase (a new rhizome branch) here 
> and there will not do too much damage but will give you plenty of 
> irises.  (They grow like weeds with a little care.)  Cut the foliage and 
> roots back to a few inches.  Wrap the rhizome in moist paper and put the 
> rhizome in a plastic bag (sandwich bags work well) with the foliage 
> exposed.  Keep the rhizome moist until you replant.  Replant at a depth 
> of about 1 inch.
> 
> I don't know any thing about transplanting gators ;+).
> 
> Rodney
> Rbarton@jove.acs.unt.edu
> 
> 
>
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