Ok, here is a weird question involving ethics, I guess. Or maybe I am just over-thinking it.
A couple of years ago, I brought some olive seeds back from Jerusalem from olives I picked up off the ground at a location that has great meaning in Jewish culture.
Of a couple dozen seeds, three sprouted and grew. One had a setback and is tiny, but two others are 18 inches tall now. I pruned them and rooted the cuttings. They took very well.
I want to give one of the cutting plants to a friend because it would have incredible importance to her, coming from Jerusalem.
QUESTION TO ANSWER - Being a cutting of the one I grew from seed collected in the Holy Land, can I truthfully say "this tree came from Jerusalem"?
She knows it is a cutting from the original, but I am writing up a little "baby book" for it, with pictures of me cleaning the seeds on the cruise ship, the mother tree as a sprout, the cutting, etc.
I guess I am selfish and don't want to part with one of the originals, but they are doing really well, and there is a fair chance that the one I give her will die.
I know, weird question. Thoughts?
Carolyn