Thanks everyone.
Despite how hard it could be to go through the 'right' way, I don't plan to try and sneak anything through.
The idea of being extra careful with what reaches Australia is well-founded. We
are free of alot of pests and diseases that plague horticulture elsewhere... but in practise the system is overly rigid in places and incredibly lax in others. It's an inefficient, inequitable, overly bureaucratic, often illogical and poorly implemented system. It's a roulette. Horseshoe, I bet you've been lucky with some things and your corngrits got the bullet!
As for finding straight answers in all the electronic paperwork!
That said, I'm becoming a veteran at getting
Lilium seeds into Australia, and have also received daylily seeds with very few hiccups.... But my new quest is based on my Lilium breeding goals... there's genetics in North America I'm just really keen to get!
So, I have already asked of one commercial nursery and checked online with a couple others, and the picture is that no lily bulb suppliers will risk posting to Australia any longer. Even though it is possible in theory, with all the right paperwork on both ends, the switch of hemispheres, chemical treatment, snail-pace procedures, inept and ignorant staffing of quarantine stations here, all add up to failure. The chances of getting a healthy bulb that makes the transition are really low....
But! I have reason to believe that where a whole bulb is almost certainly doomed, scales may not be. I think their chances of making it through the process and producing bulblets for growing on are worth the expense. It is reason enough for me to try, if I can get the breeding material I'm after.
I still have to read up all the useful links. The response is wonderful, folk.
