This is the most amazing video on RU-vid. How I wish that mankind would be trained to protect what we have and nurture it. Our children do not know poison ivy from just another three leafed vine. A verse from a 60's song..."Let's get back to the garden"...is where we should be thinking. Thank you for posting this video. KUDOS
Beautiful, especially coming out of Winter in Montana, waiting for spring. I would love to visit the gardens one day. Til then, this is wonderful to see, and learn about! Dan Cruickshank thanks!
Anyone who can go there, ask the orchid people to look into jumellea francoisii. They only have two records of it and I think I found a photo of it on a website in situ in Madagascar, but the person who found it didn't know what it was and I can't get ahold of them, but I think Kew can get the location and it might even be close to their branch of Kew in Madagascar. A whole industry saving the forests of Madagascar could be saved with this plant, giving the locals jobs etc. If anyone is willing to mention this to them, I will be more than happy to pass on all my info. Kew only has only two herbarium records of it. The type is online and was last collected (one that looks like the type) in the 30's. The more recently collected ones look nothing like the type. By passing on this info, you could literally singlehandedly be responsible for saving not just one, but many madagscan plant and animal species. I dug it up. It's on the catalogue of life. Also tell them that the other sightings of this on sites like genback by rakatarivo are wrong. If they look at the photos, they will see the nectaries are too long. Just screenshot this message and show them please. There's no email to just contact people at the orchid house, for example. There may also be a live specimen at the botanic garden in Antananarivo if that still exists.
Oh wow, that would be quite a taxi fare from Westminster to Kew ;) Very nice and interesting documentary. Only the music gets so loud sometimes which is an annoying thing.
