lmao..I was surprised to see this come back up! Pikecoe, I am really lmao @ your experiment and the leech jerky!! Salt does def kill them, I have used it on them b4. If I flipped a rock and saw one I'd remove it, throw it on the ground and salt it..better than salting a slug! Of course my kids thought I was totally evil for doing it, but hey! let them get their legs sucked on and see if they dont salt the lil SOB's. I havent seen any this year so far. Mike, we have leeches all over here in NJ..they arent a foreign thing. I also learned that leeches can live out of the water, as well as in. Interesting creatures. Calamity, I wouldnt chuck the plants. I would keep rinsing them off and putting them in new water, till all signs of leeches are gone. As long as they are in totes and there are no fish to worry about, I say use the bleach!! Pikecoe..I HAVE to ask...what do you mean..'PP'??

Gary, a bit surprised at Sealing Wax Palms (Cyrtostachys) and Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) growing together. The BOP isn't a tropical (from South Africa) and the palm is an ultra-tropical. Rainforests are a bit overwhelming, there's no wasted space. Everything has got something growing on it, and that "it" sometimes has something else growing on it again. I like the way Elkhorns and Basket Ferns become hosts to other ferns, particularly the Ribbon Ferns, and also orchids and Hoyas. I did a lot of walking in the high altitude rainforest in Papua New Guinea, it was breathtaking. Was going to try it on Bartle Frere this last time in Queensland but the weather had set in bad on the mountain, becomes a bit dangerous on the slippery boulders near the top. You're doing a lot better for local native orchids than in my locality, we've only got about 46, I think. Most are terrestrial. Over in Queensland they have thousands. Our only epiphytes are Dendrobium affine, D. canaliculatum, Cymbidium canaliculatum and a rather obscure rare one I can't remember the name of. But at least we have a lot more native orchids than all of Hawaii. (Although, even Alaska has more native orchids than Hawaii, oh well...)

Yours sounds like GBOP. Traveller's has the very distinctive overlapping of the frond bases on the flattened trunk: And I'm pretty sure the TP is solitary, while the GBOP is a clumper.

She should call each airline that is has a route to her destination. When I moved from Hi. I brought 2 birds with me on United. Most airlines allow birds in the cabin. They will probably require a health certificate from a vet........or at least that's what was required years ago. She should get the required info from the desired airline.