Nice looking Vanda, Peter. How are you going to conserve it?
Sooner or later someone less scrupulous than you will find it. Indeed, now that the orchid world has heard about it there may actually be people looking for it, and I am sure they will, in time, succeed. Perhaps they can back track your route. Did you have guides? Will they talk? Perhaps if you had not published your finding it would have a better chance of surviving.
Of course you could propagate the species and distribute seedlings. This would take a lot of pressure off the plants in their native environment. If you had done this and waited for the seedlings to mature before announcing your find to the world it's possible that no one would even look for it in the wild.
So what are you doing to save this new Vanda species???
Martin
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