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Less Common Species

Gerald Buswell

Gerald Buswell

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It appears to me, perhaps a someone who is a bit of an outsider, that other than the bigger distributors, Tropica, Dennerle, et al, there is little in the way of more unusual plants available in the UK, maybe as a result of Brexit, but are there any shops stocking more unusual plants? Wildwoods, appears to have some, are there others, do members have a secret underground network?
 
It's a result of Mainland European sellers now having to provide both phytosanitary certificates and have Health checks on the plants which is to costly and beaucratic for anything but the larger commercial sellers.

UK Government have just announced a new system coming into affect for EU imports from October 31st 2023 which puts plant and animal products into 3 catergorys, unfortunatly Cryptocoryne, Hygrophila and aquarium plants will be put into catergory Medium which means the same procudure as present.

If aquatic plants were moved into Low risk catergory it would mean a end to phyto certs and health checks and those mainland european sellers would be freely send plants to the Uk again and we could resume buying again from the likes of Premiunbuce and Aquasabi.

I urge everyone with a spare 10 minutes to respond to imports@apha.gov.uk and let them know that Aquarium plants are zero risk when it comes to biosecurity.

www.gov.uk

Check risk categories for animals and animal products imported from the EU to Great Britain

Use this guidance to find the risk category and inspection rate for imports of live animals and animal products from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to Great Britain.
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BTOM risk categorisations - UK Plant Health Information Portal

planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk
 
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Hi
We have a For Sale Section Forum....sometimes rarer aquatic plants are put up for Sale!
There are also a few members that grow the more hard to find plants....Vasteq, Roland, Konrad, Macek.g....you can view some images in this thread below.

Plant Pictures!

For general identification of plants! Please only post clear Plant Images as these will be viewed across multiple formats with the name above. Two Images maximum. Discussions can take place on the below thread! https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/plant-discussions.69040/ Or in the Plant...
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought you could bring in small quantities for personal use from EU, so technically could ask a friend to mail some?
 
palcente said:
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought you could bring in small quantities for personal use from EU, so technically could ask a friend to mail some?
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Nope sadly not, you need a phyto cert and pre notification on Ipaffs system hence why all the specialist shops no longer sell to Uk customers.
 
tigertim said:
Nope sadly not, you need a phyto cert and pre notification on Ipaffs system hence why all the specialist shops no longer sell to Uk customers.
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Is that really enforceable? I can see how some degenerate criminal could just put a plant in an envelope, stick a stamp on it and post it. Luckily we are all decent folk here!
 
palcente said:
Is that really enforceable? I can see how some degenerate criminal could just put a plant in an envelope, stick a stamp on it and post it. Luckily we are all decent folk here!
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Depends on your luck, i've had plants got through and also stopped, imho flat packed in a normal envolope would be your best bet.
 
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