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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…