Posted on 08/21/2013 7:31:20 PM PDT by TexGrill
Federal agents confiscated and destroyed a plant-pathogenic fungus found on brooms made from palms and being imported from the Philippines.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists on Aug. 9 intercepted a plant-pathogenic fungus on a handicraft made of native palm parts while examining a cargo container from the Philippines. The fungus was discovered in a shipment of “native brooms” made from Cocos nucifera sp., a palm species.
The discovery of an unidentified fungus and two other plant disease symptoms in the shipment prompted federal authorities to reload and seal the container until positive identification could be made.
This was the first time the fungus was intercepted in the U.S.
Specimens were submitted to the U.S. Animal Plant Health Inspection Service in Honolulu.
The fungus was identified as Guignardia cocogena (Cooke), which is not known to occur in the United States, and is the first time Guignardia on a palm has been identified.
To prevent the possibility of a new plant disease becoming established in Hawaii and the U.S., the shipment was destroyed by steam sterilization.
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Oh Gosh I was hoping to hear about Spores From Space!....
o no, they come later first we have to deal with the Blob or Fungus.
/johnny
There’s a fungus among us.
It’s just a DREAMer undocumented fungus yearning to breath free. This land should welcome all fungi. When interviewed for NPR, the fungus said “I am not illegal; I am not undocumented; I am a fungus, first and foremost. If they want to take away our dignity, our funganity, we have to fight for it.”
I hate it when that happens.
Thai & PI Ping
What broom?
This is going to be extremely painful, Mr. Verrill.
“It is the type of broom used in many parts of SEA.”
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I have two brooms like that. My outdoor broom makes a great fly swatter. Sadly, my operator does not quite look the same as yours :(
Good thing they destroyed it before the democrats gave it amnesty and registered it to vote.
Of course being dead never stopped a democrat voter.
Damn straight.
One of the best eps, ever.
:)
Is this kind of coconut broom included?
http://image.ec21.com/image/wonderrajan/OF0009260707_1/Sell_coconut_brooms.jpg
My wife uses them all the time. In fact, there’s one right outside the door, about twenty feet from where I’m sitting.
alien fungus!!
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