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Re: Huntington and imports

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Is my memory right that the ISI list was published regularly in the BCSS journal and there was a UK person through whom plants could be ordered? But this was discontinued some time ago?
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ragamala wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:54 am Is my memory right that the ISI list was published regularly in the BCSS journal and there was a UK person through whom plants could be ordered? But this was discontinued some time ago?
See: viewtopic.php?t=137489#p137489
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Thanks very much Tony for that clarification/reminder. Interesting if Stuart still managed to obtain plants and how, later, not that I have any personal interest in that.
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I think as Stuart is a nursery he can obtain the export & import paperwork easier than an individual but has to do a lot of plants to make it economical
Correct me if I'm wrong Stuart
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You could try http://www.1a-shops.eu/karl1, Karl Rabsilber from Germany
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I know the people at The Huntington well, mainly from helping with bringing back material for John Pilbeam for his Echeveria and Stapelia books. They're a great bunch of people and I've been round the 'backstage' ISI areas though they're too busy when the US National is on which is often when I'm there. I brought 50 of the later Schicks a few years ago with the intention of propagating them for the nursery but they just sat in the nursery, taking up space, flowering well each year and producing no offsets worth speaking about. They were the more recent Schicks, sold after the time when the Huntington stopped sending to the UK but I got bored with them doing nothing and gave some away and sold the others on ebay.

It's quite ridiculous that they're considered 'endangered' for CITES purposes as they're hybrids that don't exist in the wild, but my nursery contacts in the US have helped with the paperwork and for non-CITES plants it's just a case of paying about $150 for a phyto. For a private collector, the paperwork is pretty nearly impossible for just a few plants.

Doug Sizmur at Kent Cacti usually has a good mixture of Schicks, I expect he'll have some at the forthcoming Edenbridge Cactus Mart.

Stuart
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