Hello FrankO,
beyond all feelings that resepect has as plant lovers rarities such as A.titanum and such offers, it is soberly considered a question of supply and demand halt.
A. titanum is meineswissens not protected and if the way is really at risk in their home, I don't know. Seen in this way can the way as a plant or seeds traded, increased and sold.
A Amorphophallusfreund from the United States has recently 10 titanum via i-bäh bought and a little knows the background of the offer, because he has demanded.
The plants go back Tropicals from Apopka, Florida, to worldwide. The company has only sown the titanum, was but then give up and EFG orchids has purchased the stock of approximately 1200 seedlings and further cultivated.
They sell them on their website (<!-m-> < a class href="http://www.efgorchids.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc ="post link"?)("Screen = CTGY & Store_Code = PP & Category_Code = com" > http://www.efgorchids.com/Merchant2/mer... y_Code = com < /a > <!-m-> - there under complete availability check).
Since this site at Amorphophallusfreunden is apparently not well known and the way among all the Orchiedeen is rather a strange exotic, the Nachfage is simply low and EFG will get rid apparently - so unintelligible that may be Amorphophallussüchtige for us.
Maybe a reason should be rather the offer to make a bulk order there - I do but not....;-)
MfG,
Bernhard.