Plagiótropo                            2022

What is a plant?

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An object or a living being?

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Although in practical terms a cultivated plant is now seen as an ornament, a collectible and decorative object, its origin lies in a living and dynamic ecosystem.

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Most of these plants come from diverse ecosystems that have been shrinking in recent years due to the aesthetic interest that drove uncontrolled collection of specimens for reproduction in controlled spaces.

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This behavior has not only led to the loss of genetic information from native species but also to an extraction market that has been deteriorating ecosystems, often fragile ones.

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Now, while cultivation conservation has been a hope for preserving some species threatened by climate change and human impact, the reality is that many of them depend not only on controlled human processes and technology to recreate their ecosystems but also on market dynamics that drive whether they are cultivated or not.

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Many of the plants that we consider common in cultivation are now scarce in the wild. So, if plant conservation will depend on market trends, what will be conserved in the future and what will not?

With that being said, is a plant an object or a living being? What is its destiny?"