Chapter PART IIB: FAMILIES OF PLANTS

Plants of:—

• Araceae

• Marantaceae

• Musaceae

• Strelitziaceae and of the genera:

  • Citrus L.

  • Fortunella Swingle

  • Persea Mill.

  • Poncirus Raf.

rooted or with growing medium attached other than plants in tissue culture.

Where the consignment has been directly consigned to Great Britain from a third country or the plants comprising it were grown in a third country an official statement shall have been made:—

1. (a)

   either that the plants were grown in and directly consigned from countries known to be free from the Burrowing Nematodes (Radopholus citrophilus Huttel, Dickson and Kaplan andR. similis(Cobb) Thorne); or

2. (b)

   that representative samples of growing medium and roots from the place of production of the plants comprising it were subjected to official nematological testing and found to be free from at leastR. citrophilus andR. similis since the beginning of the last complete cycle of vegetation.

Plants of the families:—

• Araceae

• Marantaceae

• Musaceae

• Strelitziaceae

rooted or with growing medium attached, other than plants in tissue culture.

Where the consignment has been directly consigned to Great Britain from a Member State and the plants comprising it were grown in a Member State an official statement shall have been made:—

1. (a)

   either that no symptoms of the Burrowing Nematode (Radopholus similis(Cobb) Thorne) have been observed at the place of production of the plants comprising it since the beginning of the last complete cycle of vegetation; or

2. (b)

   that growing medium and roots from suspect plants taken from the place of production of the plants comprising it have been subjected to official nematological testing and found to be free from at leastR. similis since the beginning of the last complete cycle of vegetation.

Plants of the following genera of the family Gramineae grown in and directly consigned to Great Britain from New Zealand:—

• Arundinaria Michx.

• Bambusa Schreb.

• Chimonobambusa Mak.

• Dendrocalamus Nees

• Phyllostachys Siebold and Zucc.

• Pleioblastus Nakai

• Pseudosasa Mak. ex Nakai

• Sasa Mak. and Shib.

• Semiarundinaria Mak. ex Nakai

• Shibataea Mak. ex Nakai

• Sinarundinaria Ohwi (Bamboo)

and plants ofCortaderia selloana(J.A. and J.H. Schultes) Asch. and Graebn. and its cultivars andPennisetum setaceum(Forssk.) Chiov. (syn.P. rupelli Steud.)

1. (1)

   Conditions (1), (2) and (6) specified in column 3 of Schedule 3, Item 8, shall apply.

2. (2)

   The condition specified in column 3 of Schedule 3, Item 6, shall apply.

An official statement shall have been made:—

1. (a)

   either that the plants were grown at a place of production at which no symptoms of Stolbur Disease mycoplasm have been observed during at least one official inspection carried out since the beginning of the last complete cycle of vegetation; or

2. (b)

   where the consignment is of plants in tissue culture, that the plants were derived from plants which:—

   1. (i)

      either comply with the requirement specified in sub-paragraph (a) of this Item; or

   2. (ii)

      were tested and found free from Stolbur Disease mycoplasm.