Imports to USA from Scotland and other parts of the EU
Brian Whyer (Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:22:04 PST)
The U.S. needs to know the origin of plants that I buy there before
they will issue me a phyto to take them into Canada. If I buy in
Oregon and Washington, I need two phytos, one from each state.
I think it is even worse in the U.K. I remember a London authority
telling me that inspections needed to be done county by county. I had
bought plants at the Royal Horticultural Society garden at Wisley, but
the inspector said there was no way to know where those plants had
been grown, so they couldn't be given a phyto. I gave all my plants
away.
Diane Whitehead
My information is a few years old and things may have since changed with the
EU involvement, the inspection fees certainly have increased, but for
dormant Pleione export the growing conditions were inspected once, maybe
twice, before the final check of the pseudobulbs prior to shipping.
At an orchid show some years back there was a desk issuing phytos, but I
suspect this was because the exhibiting nurseries would have had their
growing conditions
Inspected during the season prior to the show.
How much of this may have been due to Cites/species/hybrids rules on orchids
I do not know.
Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, zone ~8
On 6-Feb-08, at 11:56 AM, Lee Poulsen wrote:
What are your feelings about having things from outside the UK sent to
you (that the UK allows to be imported, such as from other EU
countries)
and then sent from you to here with the phyto issued in the UK?
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