Re: Brugs , shipping and The Law

California restrict imports of all kinds of plants, and generally requires inspection at the border (I know that some of UPS shipments to me from out of state are inspected at the border) or some sort of certification of the nursery that is shipping (the nursery itself has to have some sort of certification).  Probably anything tropical has to be certified free of soil insects/nematodes.  California routinely confiscates/destroys all houseplants that people moving into the state are bringing with them.

Calif. Dept. Of Food & Agriculture has some (not all) of these restrictions on its website at:  http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/summary.htm

They invite you to email them or call them for specific info.  Good luck.

email:  peinfo@cdfa.ca.gov

phone:  (916-654-0312)

Richard Starkeson
San Francisco


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On 10/28/2002 at 9:18 PM THGA wrote:

>For those of you living in CA or doing business with folks who do --
>Does anyone know what rules and regs exist regarding shipping 
>plants
>(esp. brugs, musa and other tropicals) to California? I do a lot of
>plant exchanges via mail -- well, OK, I guess I'm a little
>pathological (serial trader?) -- and just recently have been getting
>responses of "Sorry, I can't ship to CA" from some individual
>gardeners on the east coast. I haven't been able to find any info to
>back this up,
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