Protecting the Species

Boswellia, Bursera, and Commiphora species are known to occasionally hybridize in their natural habitat, but in recent years many hobbyists and collectors, of these species, have been deliberately hybridizing for a new market, or for self-gratification. In most cases, packing a dozen species from the same genus in one place, will cross breed through multiple means producing seedlings with no data These conditions have become disconcerting due to the uncontrolled distribution of these hybrids to other collectors, botanical gardens, and nurseries resulting in contaminating the gene pool of the true species in cultivation

In the distant past we offered a few hybrids and although we described and published each one, we no longer sell or distribute our hybrids. Our collection of the true species at TEC has been grown from seeds collected from their known habitat, or from saplings which have been imported to safeguard the wild species. We intend to protect the gene pool of the habitat species and hope that we all consider ourselves the curators of these sacred trees and stop irresponsible breeding

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