Taylor

I am sorry you were offended.

But just listen for a second please.

Bananas and Hosta are tissue cultures (most times) and if not, they have a rhizome that if you take a pup of a Banana from the while or a section of rhizome from a Hosta, the rest of the plant is still there. Unaffected and left in the wild.

Do you see any tissue cultured palms? No, or at least I haven't. That means that they took it from somewhere or grew it from seed. This also means that the original plant is gone. Now you said growing from seed was too slow, so you wanted to take from Texas or likewise (I believe thats what you said). Now you are contributing to this endangerment for your own Garden. God did put them here, but if it is gone...nobody else can enjoy it, and thats a little greedy, IMHO.

My garden consists of Pups and tissue Cultures, and Hybrids(not even wild). None have been taken from the wild to the point of endangerment. Some, like you said have. AeAe (not getting Gabe into this, but he says) is rarely seen in Hawaii anymore. Why? People took them for they're own good or to try TC. But now people are getting them from pups or the ones they did take and i do not think that anyone that didn't go to Hawaii and snatch it should be ridiculed. I do not have AeAe, but I should not be ridiculed for having Ornata from a pup from a pup from a nursery who got them from a TC lab who got the original from another TC lab from maybe 1 pup from the wild, which left the mother intact, unlike taking a palm.

Again like Randy said, If everyone took one...
My 2 Cents. Thank you, that is all I have to say on this topic.

Taylor