Selby Botanical Gardens pleads guilty

For background on this story, please read this weblog entry: Phragmipedium kovachii.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the US Endangered Species Act for its role in illegally importing Phragmipedium kovachii. Selby Botanical Gardens will pay a fine of $5000, be placed on probation and also petition to have the name of the orchid revoked (please read the background for details about the name).

Links:

Garden to Plead Guilty to Taking Orchid by the Associated Press
Selby pleads guilty in orchid case from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Garden fined in orchid scandal from the St. Petersburg Times

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 2:11 PM on December 18, 2003

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