It's against the law due to disease concerns that have threatened the Florida citrus industry.

Thankyou

Why would you need to ship a calamondin to Florida? You can buy the trees at just about any nursery, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, road side nursery shops along the interstates,etc. It is one of the most common citrus trees I see for sale.

It was a cutting I was sending to someone to start for Bonsia use as a gift....They had a beautiful looking 5-6 inch tall one that was variegated with fruit on it already, while I was at Logee's.... I set up a shipment right there for her... They didn't even know they couldn't ship it till yesterday...That's all...But thankyou for the thought.

This is so strange. For weeks there was a flashing notice at the top of this very forum directing the users to click for information concerning USDA quarantines on citrus and why. I particularly remember it was about the time when Georgia and South Carolina were added to the list of quarantined states for citrus greening. The USDA banned importing and exporting citrus plants in an attempt to stop citrus greening and canker. There have been any number of threads about of citrus canker for several years. Check out the link

Here is a link that might be useful: Citrus quarantine

The ban on bringing citrus plant material into Florida predates canker and greening by a long time. I'm not sure when it was enacted, but certainly, since at least the 1970s; maybe long before. The idea was to keep diseases and pests of all types out of the state. Of course, some did get in anyway. But the ban has likely at least slowed that trend.

Malcolm M. Manners
John and Ruth Tyndall Professor of Citrus Science
Florida Southern College
Lakeland

God....How did I miss that?

Oh I know, the threads and posts on the ban never interested me, never even glanced at them, since I never had a reason to ship or recieve anything from those states, well, that was what I thought, till last week..:-)

Thanks for the info and great past information..

Normally I don't go to this forum but I was curious to see if there was any info that I might find usefull as I gro Dwarf Moro Blood Orange and Dwarf Keylime. I did go to FL last summer. it was thend of June and beginning of July. I had one main want when I was there. I wanted a Cogshall Mango to add to my collection. I knew I would be safe bringing this back, but my only concern was taking it on the plane. I wanted to carry it on. I thought better not to say that it is a Mango tree when they asked me. I expected them to say No citrus or Avocado but they didn't say anything at all! Icould not believe it. I could have brought any kind of citrus from FL and they would not have cared. I guess it is more important to keep the line moving. Now I know that bringing a tree to NY wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but they didn't know where I was going! I could have been headed to Texas with an infected tree, now that was alarming to me. I bet this contributed to the problem!