USDA seed interceptions increasing?

USDA seed interceptions increasing?
Joe G (Thu, 05 Sep 2019 05:26:02 PDT)

I had a shipment of 50 packets of Cyclamen seeds from a seed exchange
confiscated & destroyed this spring at the Newark, NJ port of entry, no
reason given; all Cyclamen except cultivated C. persicum are CITES Appendix
II, but Cyclamen fall under CITES exemption #11 which allow export of seed,
and anyway I'd only had APHIS-prohibited species confiscated by the USDA
before, not CITES-protected species.

Some businesses, individuals and organizations are either pretty good at
keeping you from accidentally or intentionally ordering prohibited
seed/live bulbils (e.g. the Scottish Rock Garden Club's asterisks in their
SeedEx catalog), sneaking prohibited plants in under a defunct name, or
sending seeds as a "botanical sample" or "catalog sample" thus avoiding the
inspection station even when I provided them permits!

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019, 1:10 AM Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote:

As I mentioned, two of my original orders arrived unscathed. So there is
hope.

—Lee

On Sep 4, 2019, at 9:10 PM, makimoff76@gmail.com wrote:

This is a very interesting read, thank you for sending.

I just ordered some seeds from Oron Peri and having had no real problems

in ordering seeds internationally in the past I wonder if they will arrive
unscathed by the treatment manuals that were probably written in the dark
cubicles of bureaucratic enclaves of the 1950’s. Funny how plants don’t
really see borders the same way as humans do, rather they are very
perceptive of changing climates and droughts and floods and far more in
tune with nature’s changing ways then a geopolitical line will ever be.

Mark Akimoff

Illahe Nursery and Gardens
Salem, Oregon

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