There is nothing wrong with you cultivating torreya. In fact, I think its great that you are having success. That is totally different from "assisted migration". AM (aka Assisted colonization (AC)), which is the process of establishing new, reproducing populations of an organism in a new area where it wasn't found previously. AM is only a realistic option when a number of assumptions are met. These include: detailed knowledge of the biology of the species, detailed knowledge of the cause of its decline, research-driven approaches to introduction into new areas...and there are many of more. For the most part, none of these are/were known as AM was suggested for torreya and begun by the TGs. You still assume the pathogen is a soil-borne organism. It is not, it is very much capable of being transmitted on cuttings and/or seeds. I suppose since you are mis-trusting of academics and the leader of the TG group has stated that "there is no time to wait for science", we won't ever see eye to eye on this. In my view, this group is driven by emotions rather than empirical evidence. That is a shame, because much could be accomplished if forces joined. As for grant money, that is a ridiculous statement since there are basically no grant funds for this type of work since this species has zero economic value. I did manage to get $1500 to propagate disease-resistant individuals and test their resistance to the disease. I am hoping they may tell us something.

There seems to be a fair amount of taxonomic confusion regarding this and other, very narrow columnar yews - 'Stovepipe', 'Beanpole', 'Flushing', etc. You can find any of them (and others) listed as cultivars of either T. baccata or T. x media. I'm not at all sure just going back to the original supplier will necessarily provide clarification - they are just as likely to be selling the plant in question under a dubious name as not :-) Sources I trust tend to list 'Stovepipe' (and 'Flushing') under xmedia and 'Beanpole' under baccata. xmedia will be more cold tolerant then selections of baccata. There also seems to be debate on the ultimate width of 'Stovepipe' - various sources list its spread as anywhere from 8" to 5'!! Since your plants were a relatively good deal (they'd sell for around $60-75 in my area) go ahead and test them out. Not all that much to lose. You'll soon determine if they are cultivars of baccata regardless of the accuracy of cultivar name :-) And they make great vertical exclamation points in the garden!

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Some (?all) of the typos that Bboy points out look like Optical Character Recognition mistakes during scanning from a paper copy - 'a' to 'n' (in 'Blaauw' to 'Blanuw') is certainly a typical OCR error. Juniperus x media van Melle was at the time (1983) thought to be correct; it was only in 1994 that it was pointed out that it was a later homonym for J. x media Dmitr., published in 1938 in an obscure Soviet journal unavailable in the west. The 'discovery' was made by P. A. Schmidt, who re-named van Melle's plant as Juniperus x pfitzeriana (note, pf-, not ph- !!). Resin