The EU has added to the list of plants that are now illegal to trade. And as the link explains, although we leave the EU in a couple of days, the UK will still ban them.
The problem will be identifying 'illegal' plants and 'legal' plants in the same genus eg Elodea crispa, Lagarosiphon major, is illegal while Elodea densa, Egeria densa, is legal.
Having illegal plants in our tanks/ponds won't be policed, but shop will have to stop selling them.
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Ponds, plant cascades and planted tanks will never look the same again, now the Invasive Alien Species Order 2019 is
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The problem will be identifying 'illegal' plants and 'legal' plants in the same genus eg Elodea crispa, Lagarosiphon major, is illegal while Elodea densa, Egeria densa, is legal.
Having illegal plants in our tanks/ponds won't be policed, but shop will have to stop selling them.