1, Pixie, "developed by Tsai Wei-ting of the Floriculture Research Center of the Council of Agriculture, the whole process-from artificial selection, to creating the cultivar, to patenting it and beginning production in April of this year-took six years, and it will take another two years for" Pixie "to actually hit the market.
以農委會花卉研究中心研究員蔡媦婷育成的新型「小花蝴蝶蘭」──「台農 1 號小精靈」來說，從選種、分生育種到今年 4 月授權生產，竟已歷時 6 年，而小精靈真正問市還得再等 2 年。