Oz still hasn't gotten over the cane toad experience.  I suppose you can't blame them.  Here in TN we are still suffering from the first gift plant of kudzu.
Bob
On Monday, August 3, 2020, 10:39:49 AM EDT, Lee Poulsen via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Once, some years back, I participated in a shipment of plants/bulbs to Australia. A group of people in Australia had made a group order of Cryptostephanus haemanthoides from a person in Southern California. I had offered to send a few friends offsets of Paramongaia weberbaueri that I had, and they made arrangements so that I could send my bulbs to the C. haemanthoides person and that person added them to his shipment to Australia, and the Australian authorities performed the required treatment and quarantine on the whole lot, which the group had to pay for. I don’t know if the Cryptostephanuses survived the torture, but the Paramongaia did and eventually grew I’m told. So importation of bulbs into Australia can be done, but it’s expensive and sometimes the plants or bulbs don’t survive the importation ordeal they’re required to be put through.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m

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