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[Teotzlcoatl]

I asked- Are your sure your "Kanna" is the correct species?

Response from the owner of Sacred Succulents/B.P.C. -

Yep, what I have is the real thing, been growing it since 1995 and

it was from seed collected by South African botanists, I have S.

emarcidum and sp. nova as well as several other species and they

all look different. Part of the confusion is that the plants will

vary greatly in their morphology depending on how much food and

water they're given... as far as I know I was one of the first to

offer S. tortuosum plants/seeds in the US... I don't know what

others are growing because seed started flowing in from many

different SA sources about a decade ago...I've distributed about 7

different species over the years so it's possible that others have

confused these at some point..

But I have heard from my S. African botanists contacts that they

have known of plenty of healthy S. tortuosum populations for many

years... so there's good reason to believe that true seed is still

coming out of SA.

Perhaps a lot of what's currently being distributed is something

else, but these kind of rumors pop up and are hard to kill even if

they are BS, just look at all the baseless crap that's distributed

about Trichocereus...

Edited September 9, 2011 by Teotzlcoatl

[friendly]

Silverhill Seeds and Dr. Nigel Gericke both confirmed to me at the time that there was indeed a diesase that swept through the Sceletium species plants in the late 90's-early 2000's, both cultivated and wild. As I mentioned earlier, I have not been involved with the project for some time and stated that the problem may have been resolved. Indeed, the fact that Dr. Gericke has progressed far enough in his cultivation efforts to be able to consider commercial applications on a large scale confirms this.

I am glad to learn that the seeds and plants are both doing well in their native habitats.

Edited September 10, 2011 by friendly