Michael, You have discovered another complication in the business. There are a lot of one-off restrictions that might or might not be visible to you when you set up your import permit. For instance, when I was setting my permit to include all the genera that members wanted, four of them (Crocosmia, Gladiolus, Gloriosa, and Watsonia) cannot be added to the permit if coming from South Africa. A flag says these are NOT ALLOWED entry at all, I believe because they can harbor brown potato rot. So we had to remove them from any order that has them on it. Issues like that are definitely not negotiable. However, I do note that there are various permits, including one to allow importing of live pests for use in research (I'm not making this up). You might want to delve into the more exotic permit classes to see if there is one that is tailored specifically for bottle babies; as I recall, one can get docs that allow importing bottles of orchid seedlings of species that are on CITES and would otherwise be illegal to sell if wild-collected. If you haven't already done so, you might call the guy at the APHIS mother ship in Maryland. You'll get a robo-operator but at the appropriate point in the menu, pick the one about importing live plants and then leave a message. He will get back to you promptly, and has always been very helpful when I have questions. He might know of a work-around for your problem. But when it comes to serious threats to food crops, they will err on the side of caution, and we can't blame them. Contact me privately if you want to discuss things in more detail. But it sounds like Austria might be the deal breaker and your supplier needs to set up a lab someplace else. Good luck! Bob Zone 7, waiting for the rain tonight. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…