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At least they're being preserved. It's not like they're poaching wild animals that can never reproduce. These plants are being distributed across the globe, p

At least they're being preserved. It's not like they're poaching wild animals that can never reproduce. These plants are being distributed across the globe, preserving their genetic line better than a local culture ever could, no?

woodruffw 5y ago
> These plants are being distributed across the globe, preserving their genetic line better than a local culture ever could, no? I don't think it's a matter of "local culture." The plants are being removed from the environment they're adapted to; most of the ones sold into different climates will probably fail to re-adapt and will die. In that manner, it's more or less the same as live animal trafficking.
- johnnyApplePRNG 5y ago
  >The plants are being removed from the environment they're adapted to Everything I have learned about seeds tells me that plants try their damndest to spread their DNA as far and wide as possible. In a sense, flying live plants all across the world is exactly what they're hoping/living/existing for.
  - tshaddox 5y ago
    > Everything I have learned about seeds tells me that plants try their damndest to spread their DNA as far and wide as possible. This seems no less true of animals, many of which go so far as to move their entire body considerable distances to find food, mates, and suitable places to have offspring.
  - woodruffw 5y ago
    Plants, like every other living thing, specialize for environments. Propagation is how they test their specialization pressures. That testing tends to happen over hundreds of thousands to millions of years. Shipping mature adult plants around the world to different climates is not the same thing as the kind of seasonal, glacial changes in specialization that they are adapted for.
LesZedCB 5y ago
from what i've seen it's really hard to even reintroduce plants back into the ecosystem they were originally stolen from. typically they are extremely fragile and the shock kills them. for example, southwestern succulents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0

woodruffw 5y ago

> These plants are being distributed across the globe, preserving their genetic line better than a local culture ever could, no? I don't think it's a matter of "local culture." The plants are being removed from the environment they're adapted to; most of the ones sold into different climates will probably fail to re-adapt and will die. In that manner, it's more or less the same as live animal trafficking.

johnnyApplePRNG 5y ago
>The plants are being removed from the environment they're adapted to Everything I have learned about seeds tells me that plants try their damndest to spread their DNA as far and wide as possible. In a sense, flying live plants all across the world is exactly what they're hoping/living/existing for.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  > Everything I have learned about seeds tells me that plants try their damndest to spread their DNA as far and wide as possible. This seems no less true of animals, many of which go so far as to move their entire body considerable distances to find food, mates, and suitable places to have offspring.
- woodruffw 5y ago
  Plants, like every other living thing, specialize for environments. Propagation is how they test their specialization pressures. That testing tends to happen over hundreds of thousands to millions of years. Shipping mature adult plants around the world to different climates is not the same thing as the kind of seasonal, glacial changes in specialization that they are adapted for.

LesZedCB 5y ago

from what i've seen it's really hard to even reintroduce plants back into the ecosystem they were originally stolen from. typically they are extremely fragile and the shock kills them. for example, southwestern succulents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0