Tsai Tung-ming, a researcher with TARI's Floriculture Research Center, says that Taiwan has long cultivated the yellow Gower Ramsey variety exclusively. If market tastes shift, the flower could quickly lose its market standing to a new variety developed abroad, which would be disastrous for the local industry.
農委會花卉研究中心助理研究員蔡東明指出，台灣長期以來只栽種黃色的「南西」種，一旦市場口味轉向，隨時可能被其他國家研發的新品種取代，如此一來將導致整個產業一蹶不振。