Hello, I am a graduate student a Western Washington University in Bellingham ,WA. working on a study of Campanula. I am in need of fresh leaf material from Campanula lasiocarpa. Can anyone tell me if the UBC gardens, researchers, horticulturists, etc. grow this plant and have leaf material available? I need to be sure of the source and and 'purity' (no garden cultivars etc.). Thanks.
Maybe you can collect it yourself later in the year, from wild populations. USDA Plants database shows it for two WA counties. Thousands of other hits for the name on the internet. No US institutions list it for their collections? Maybe it doesn't persist at low elevations. Live plant matter brought in from CAN has to make it through APHIS screening.
Thanks RonB but I was hoping to get a jump on the season. I need to prepare primers for amplification now if possible. I will be collecting from Washington locations but they are all at high elevations and not available until later in the year. Also, we have very few and very small populations. In fact, Campanula lasiocarpa is on the states sensitive list; which is one of the reasons I am working on it. It is much more common in B.C. I am somewhat familiar with bringing things across the border, having done so with plants from growers in the past, but am not sure how the procedure may differ for different sources. So, I'm still hoping someone has material more readily available.
Hi, We have a listing of our Campanula here. However, that list is starting to get a bit out of date and doesn't include items accessions after mid-2005 (I really need to update it). We apparently do have some wild collected 2005 accessions grown from seed - but the seed was collected in Japan, if that makes a difference. Follow the suggestions under "Research Requests" in the righthand sidebar. You may wish to email Douglas Justice (click on the mailto: link for Curator of Collections in that sidebar) in advance to confirm the plants made it through this past winter / have emerged. Douglas will then bring in a few other people into the mix once you've faxed / sent the completed Materials Transfer Agreement form, assuming the plants are still alive.
