Origin & Provenance
glossary - handling & establishing plants - origin & provenance - root-balled trees
The terms origin and provenance have not been widely used by specifiers and providers in amenity sectors of the plant supply chain where the bulk of trading has been in vegetatively propagated varieties. The terms have however been in constant use in forestry. Here, most plants are grown from seed collected from populations of unimproved trees.
‘Origin’ and ‘provenance’ are relevant to plants raised from seed, and not to vegetatively propagated material, nor stock raised from controlled-hybrid seed or of improved cultivars.
II. ‘Seed Origin’ as Applied to Forestry and Woodland Seed Sources
The concepts underlying the current use of ‘origin’ for tree seeds are defined under Relevance of Origin .
III. ‘Seed Provenance’ as Applied to Forestry and Woodland Seed Sources
IV. Qualitative Criteria for Forest Seed Sources
V. Native Origin Species Lists