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California Succulents Attract Native Plant Enthusiasts … and Smugglers
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:28:16
Publish Date: 2019-03-28 12:30:00
Description:

Dudleyas are squat succulent plants with red-tipped silvery leaves that grow abundantly along California’s rocky coastline, sprouting stalks of brightly colored flowers during the spring bloom season. They’re also an ongoing target of organized plant poachers, who’ve been illegally uprooting dudleyas for distribution as far away as China and South Korea. We’ll talk about what’s driving global demand for the plants and what’s being done to protect them.

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