California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDA)

Description

Founded in the 1920s, the Botany Lab and Herbarium of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (Plant Pest Diagnostics Center) serves as the plant diagnostic and identification service for California, and is the repository for the state collection of noxious weed and agricultural plant specimens. Size of collection: ca. 55,000 plant specimens. Notable collections include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, T. C. Fuller, G. Douglas Barbe, G. F. Hrusa, and G. L. Stout.CITES US 241; APHIS PPQ Containment facility #889; PPQ 588 P526P-18-00641; PPQ 526 P526P-17-02764; CA State Diagnostic Plant Pest Permit 2828; CDFW CESA (2081(a)-19-011-RP) AMENDMENT 1.The Gilbert L. Stout Plant Disease Herbarium (CDA-BPS) has ca. 10,000 unaccessioned specimens, integration into CDA is in progress. The CDFA Seed Herbarium has ca. 50,000 accessions in the Seed and Fruit Collection (CDA SFC), and is curated and databased separately from CDA (Deborah J. Meyer, Curator and Senior Seed Botanist). Notable collections in CDA-SFC include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, B. Crampton, P. B. Kennedy, D. Baxter, B. M. Browning, D. Decker-Walters, and C. Dremann.

Contacts

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Genevieve Walden
Telephone: 1(916)738-6688
email: genevieve.walden@cdfa.ca.gov

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDA)
Botany Lab and Herbarium (CDA), 3294 Meadowview Road, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (PPDC)
Sacramento
95832-1448
California
US
email: genevieve.walden@cdfa.ca.gov