The succulent meat stolen and dug has been disgraced abroad.

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Meredith Melody

Jiang Meiqi

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In April this year, the California Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation Service cracked three cases of theft of succulent plants in Humboldt and Mendocino counties of California, recovered nearly 5000 succulent plants, and successfully exposed an illegal supply chain of succulent plants across the Pacific Ocean.

Liu Fengxia,52, a 37-year-old Chinese citizen, and Taehun Kim and Taeyun Kim, a 46-year-old South Korean, were arrested according to law, and the three will be formally indicted on May 16.

And this stolen succulent is one of the most expensive goods-the Fairy Cup, such as the first Frost, is succulent and very popular among petty-bourgeois families in Asia. Why is the Fairy Cup poaching so rampant? Let's start with itself.

Fairy Cup-first Frost

-it looks so beautiful.

The genus Dudleya, also known as Tetranychus, crassulaceae, contains three subgenera, with a total of about 100 species and subspecies. The genus was named by William Russell William Russell Dudley, a botanist in the department of botany at Stanford University.

Compared with other succulent plants, the fairy cup can be called a fairy down to earth, the appearance of the state is beautiful and attractive, and people keep playing with it.

Good appearance is sometimes a kind of original sin.

-facilitate burglary-

The place of origin is concentrated in the coastal zone of Mexico bordering the United States, near San Diego, California.

San Diego is known as the "city of fairy cups" because of its 90% variety of fairy cups. Along the coast of the famous "Highway 1", there are also many fairy cups, where theft is the most rampant. Under the blue sea and blue sky, there are people who just want to make black money.

Highway 1

The fairy cup is very fond of the coastline. In terms of altitude, most of them grow at about sea level, and a few can even take root on the mountain tops and cliffs of the peninsula. it's full of gold!

Fairy Cup growing on the cliff (Source sthblue)

Although the Fairy Cup has a fairy face, it is not so delicate! In any case, it is necessary to grow stubbornly, so it is convenient for transportation after being stolen and dug. The fairy cup can be supported for a long time without roots.

-difficult to reproduce, rare-

The Fairy Cup is very difficult to breed because of it, no! Yes! Ye Cha! Can only rely on ramet, beheading, seeds to reproduce, the growth rate is not very fast. Scarcity is precious, so a blow, naturally some people flock to it, say it has face ah!

Moreover, most of the popular fairy cups are native species, and they will be gone if they are dug up. Let's take a look at these rare native species.

-first frost-

Scientific name: Dudleya farinosa (Farinosa), the leaf heart is white and frosty, and the leaf edge is red. It is also known as Liu Dan Baihao, the Flame Fairy Cup.

There are apple leaves and imperial swords that look like the first frost.

Apple leaves, scientific name: Dudleya fromosa Faromosa, leaves wide and short, basically all green leaves, will not be very red.

Imperial sword, the leaves are longer and darker than the first frost.

Snow mountain, scientific name: Dudleya pulverulenta, Pufu fog cold tower, white powder, flawless iceberg beauty.

The fairy cup Brittoni, which is easy to be confused with the snow mountain, but the Brittonne powder is thicker, like snow, the whole snow demon.

Du Alice, scientific name: Dudleya edulis, Latin word meaning "edible side dish", also known as stick leaf fairy cup, the most attractive is it, rich in color changes.

Maidservant Gina is shorter and cuter than Alice du.

Thumb Fairy Cup, scientific name: Dudleya pachyphytum, translated name: Patch Feitu, it is said that there is only one island, and the thieves have dug it up.

Of course, there are also gardening species worth buying.

White chrysanthemum-

The scientific name Dudleya Greenei, Greene, looks exquisite and moving.

White chrysanthemum is also more likely to explode in the head and grow in groups. Compared with the beautiful first frost, white chrysanthemum is also a smaller Jasper, fresh and lovely, and white chrysanthemum is a kind of horticulture, so it can be bought at ease, not stolen.

Some people will say that if you dig, you dig. It's so good-looking and worth collecting.

However, many botanists and environmentalists in Northern Canada are worried that more and more frequent theft and digging will not only damage the local ecological environment, but also lead to the loosening of cliff soil and landslides during the rainy season.

Once such an industrial chain becomes larger and larger, it will only lead to one consequence-the native fairy cup becomes more and more precious, and in the end, the beautiful figure of the native species can no longer be seen, which can only be seen in Tuhao's garden.

So how can we legally maintain this succulent plant?

Just buy the seeds. In this way, we can have this beautiful succulent plant aboveboard, and let her continue to bloom her light in our balcony and in the wild.

I don't know what people think of this kind of stealing behavior. Leave your comments quickly.

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