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Article: Bromeliad clone preservation project: a project initiated by the Bromeliad Society of South Florida.(Bromeliad Society International)
- Article from:
- Journal of the Bromeliad Society
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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The BSSF has adopted the establisment of a project, still in the planning and development stages, aimed at identifying and preserving valuable older clones of species and cultivar bromeliads that are in danger of being lost in cultivation.--The following outline was exerpted from the original proposal by Nat DeLeon, Alan Herdon and Karl Green--Ed.
"... Some of the old clones have undoubtedly disappeared, but bromeliads are a remarkably hardy group of plants, and many of the older plants may still exist in the off corners of small (or large) collections. As time passes, identification of these clones becomes harder as labels are lost ... and memories fade. There ...