Serious design fault discovered in clonal tree plantations …
Plantation e.nitens and e.globulus (bluegum) trees grown in Tasmania are highly developed ‘synthetic’ trees. They are manufactured using ‘one stop mass pollination’ or ‘mass controlled pollination’ as the first stage of a clonal tree assembly line.
These are not normal trees grown from seed. They are grown from ‘somatic embryos’.
‘Somatic embryos’ are formed directly from plant cells in a test tube in a process that bypasses the slow growth of seed pods and natural tree reproduction. This technology lends itself to the propagation of mass clonal tree plantation products sold by ‘clonal nurseries’. What is shipped-out to the new plantations are thousands of genetically-identical ‘tree clones’. (1)
Read the full opinion on Karl’s website, West Tamar Talk, here
