I believe that Nancy is asking a good question, but from her description she
needn't worry. She has not modified the genetype of the plants. They should be
make ideal wild plants too.
Eric G. Hurley
Ames IA
> I got permission from the writer of the e-mail, below, to repost this.
>
> Her concern about the ethics of replanting a cultivated native plant back
> into a natural area contrasts starkly with the complete lack of comparable
> ethical concern on the part of corporations like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer
> Hi-Bred as they genetically engineer plants to contain genes from completely
> unrelated species and then release those plants into the environment.
>
> Tom
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> Subj:    [iowa-native-plants] Green Dragon
> Date:   02-10-22 21:53:43 EDT
> From:   [log in to unmask] (nancy)
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> About the Green Dragon.  I have found it growing in a wooded area
> (Hickory Hill Park) near Iowa City, in a hickory oak grove. very loose
> soil, high canopy.  I rescued a plant from the bulldozer a few years
> ago, and saved the fruits in the frig in a plastic bag.  I soaked the
> seeds and squeezed them out of the pulp, planted the plump ones in seed
> starting soil and almost all germinated.  I repotted them to peat pots,
> and set them in the garden, protected with a chicken wire cover.  I did
> the same for Jack in the pulpit and practically every seed germinated,
> and all plants survived repotting, and grew very well in a protected
> bed.  These plants are all three years old now, and if any one wants
> any, let me know in the spring.  I don't have any place to replant them
> to, so I would be glad to give them away.  Are they still considered
> "wild" if they have been in my garden for a few years, half a mile from
> their origins?  Would it be ethical if I replanted a few back in the
> park?
>
> Nancy A. Fink
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