You can't send live plant material to the USA, even seeds need a phytosanitary certificate.

Thanks, Mg - I thought that was the case.

For seed you may be able to get away with an easier certificate... but not for live plant material - which is likely to be dead by the time the US customs and excise set it free in any case :-)

Watching these customs programmes...like the Australian ones, it is considered to be worth a several thousand dollars fine to attempt to import plant material snaekily. I should think USA even more paranoid.

I don't think anywhere could be more paranoid than Oz. The regulations to take our Land Rover in there runs to a small book!!!

I think ht Oz & NZ governments are, as Wagger says, more paranoid than the US - that said I can understand their paranoia non-native plants can cause havoc in the wrong place! Think of giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed as examples in this country.