APHIS adds 10 plants to <em> Phytophthora ramorum </em> regulations list

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, Food and Environment Research Agency have identified plants associated with P. ramorum that were not previously recorded.
* Choisya ternate (Mexican-orange)
* Cornus kousa (Kousa dogwood)
* Daphniphyllum glaucescens
* Ilex aquifolium (European holly)
* Lithocarpus glaber (Japanese oak)
* Magnolia cavalieri (Michelia)
* M. foveolata (Michelia)
* Ribes laurifolium (bayleaf currant)
* Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry)
* V. vitis-idaea (cowberry, lingon berry, mountain cranberry)

Nurseries currently operating under a compliance agreement with APHIS may continue to ship hosts and associated plants including the newly listed plants. Any nursery containing these newly listed associated plants that is not currently operating under a compliance agreement must be properly inspected, sampled, tested, and placed under a compliance agreement by March 31, 2010 to be able to move any plants interstate.