Richard

1. Either you have a nursery stock certificate or take the plant (in a pot with the soil it was growing in) to your county agricultural office and obtain a phytosanitary certificate based on samples they take from the plant and soil -- which might take up to a week to get the lab results back.

2. You can then legally ship it to California provided (as the county will tell you) you remove most of the roots, all of the leaves, wash all soil from the plant, and ship it as a bulb / corm.

3. If you only do step #2 you risk having the plant detected by plant-sniffing dogs during shipment and having the plant confiscated plus both the sender and the receiver being awarded a fine.

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