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Originally Posted by bananaman88
I was under the impression that one of the main guys from Plant Delights Nursery brought it back from one of his collecting trips to Thailand or Vietnam. If that's the case and he got it TC'd couldn't he charge royalties? PDN is who I got mine from.
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He collected it at a market, after it was already for sale. The original plant was found in the wild (I first heard Indonesia, only years later did the the PNG story come up, I don't know which is true) and sold to a collector for something like $2000. Then you could buy them in Asia for a bit, but they were wholesale $500 each. It finally came down to about $100 in Thailand, but once it really hit the US...well, you know the status now.