Attention Homeowners, Landscapers, and Nurseries

of Riverside County, California 

 
If you purchase Phoenix variety palms from outside of Riverside County, you are in violation of the "Date Palm Disease Interior Quarantine" adopted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture in 1980.

This quarantine prohibits the movement of all plants and parts for propagation of the palm genus Phoenix, and all tools used or trimming or pruning of the genus Phoenix into the protected area. Riverside County is a quarantine area.

Homeowner's making purchases of the Phoenix variety palms should ask if the palms were grown in the Coachella Valley or if they were purchased outside of the county's quarantine area.

Please refer to the Grower's List of the nurseries certified to sell Palm Trees within the Coachella Valley.

The quarantine was established to protect the California Date Industry from Fusarium Oxysporum or Wilt, a soil-borne fungus that is spread by the Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis). If palms infected with this fungus are established within the Coachella Valley, it spreads through the soil and can cause a grave threat to a multi-million dollar date industry and ornamental palm nursery industry.