http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/05/29/business/news/17_37_115_28_
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Sale of California nursery products to Florida to resume
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California ornamental flower and plant producers have been blocked from
selling their products in Florida, Louisiana, West Virginia and Kentucky
since a disease that kills oak trees was discovered at nurseries in Los
Angeles County and in San Marcos in March.
Lyle said the talks between Kawamura and Charles Bronson, head of the
Florida Department of Agriculture, resulted in an agreement to accept all
plants that are not host to or considered associated hosts of the sudden
oak death disease.
That disease was first discovered in California in 1995 and led to a
quarantine and inspection program for 12 Northern California nurseries. A
similar quarantine and inspection program administered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture is now in place for all California nurseries,
requiring each be certified as free of the disease before they can sell
their products to other states.
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The state's nursery industry generates about $12 billion a year in retail
and wholesale sales.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04147/322024.stm
Sudden oak death fungus found on nursery-bred tree
First comfirmed case in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 25, 2004
... death, a fungus that has devastated hundreds of thousands of northern
California's prized, majestic coastal oak trees, has been found on a
nursery-bred bonsai ...
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state Department of Agriculture found the fungus on the camellia tree
shipped in January from Specialty Plants Inc., a large mail-order nursery
in California. The purchaser, responding to a letter from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, turned in the plant April 30.
The plant had been kept indoors since arriving in Pennsylvania ... and we
are confident that, given the circumstances, there was virtually no
opportunity for the disease to escape to the outdoors," Agriculture
Secretary Dennis Wolff said. "However, our staff are taking samples from
the surrounding area to verify it is contained."
Bonsai camellias, which are usually grown in pots, are not adapted to
Pennsylvania winters and must be kept indoors
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Walt Blosser, the state's plant inspection program specialist, said about
50 people who received letters from the USDA because they had purchased
plants from California or through the mail contacted the state Department
of Agriculture.
"We've sampled as many of the plants as we could lay our hands on and the
one plant is the only one that has tested positive so far," Blosser said
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