Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

This guide offers details about plant passporting - moving plants within the European Community - and marketing regulations.


Appendix C: bulbs and corms which require plant passports only when sold or moved for commerical growing on

Latin name

Common name

Allium ascalonicum (seeds and bulbs)

Shallot, spring onion

Allium cepa (seeds and bulbs)

Onion

Allium schoenoprasum (seeds and bulbs)

Chive

Camassia

Camass/quamask

Chionodoxa

Glory of the snow

Crocus flavus "Golden Yellow"

Crocus

Galanthus

Snowdrop

Galtonia candicans

Summer hyacinth

Gladiolus (miniature cultivars and their hybrids, such as G. callianthus, G. co lvillei, G. nanus, G. ramosus and G. tubergenii)

Gladiolus or sword lily

Hyacinthus

Hyacinth

Iris (including rhizomatous iris)

Iris

Ismene

Spider lily

Muscari

Grape hyacinth

Narcissus

Daffodil, narcissus

Ornithogalum

Star of Bethlehem

Puschkinia

Striped squill

Scilla

Includes bluebell (now Hyacinthoides) and squills, Cuban lily

Tigridia

Tiger flower

Tulipa

Tulip

Note

1 Plant passports are not required where the bulbs and corms have been prepared and are ready for sale to the final consumer.

Remember: there may be different plant passporting requirements for other member states. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, require a plant passport for retail sales of fireblight hosts even down to the final consumer. Please contact the SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit for further details.

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