I have a friend that grows plumeria in South Florida. She grows many rare cultivars and sells cuttings on the internet. She went out to dinner one night and when she got up the next day she noticed someone had pried open the gate to her back yard and growing grounds and cut off every one of her plants at ground level. Plumeria will root from cuttings, so the thief just had to either root them or sell the cuttings. She used to have some in pots in the front yard but got tired of replacing them as they were stolen. Apparently, there is a thriving black market in plants.
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