Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53301. Section 53301.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
ARTICLE 1. Definitions [53301. - 53313.]
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in effectCal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53302. Section 53302.
“Advertisement” means any representation which relates to nursery stock, that is disseminated in any manner or by any means, except a representation which is on the label.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53303. Section 53303.
“Decorative plants” means indoor plants which are commonly grown and sold in movable containers, and which are not adapted for cultivation out of doors because of climatic conditions and natural peculiarities of habit or growth and because of the purpose of their cultivation.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53304. Section 53304.
“Grade size” means the designation relating to nursery stock which denotes the height, spread, caliper, dimension, condition, quality, age, methods of propagation, or means of growth.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53305. Section 53305.
“Labeling” means all labels, and other written, printed, or graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, which accompanies and pertains to any nursery stock.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53306. Section 53306.
“Nursery stock” means all kinds of nursery stock except decorative plants and seeds.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53307. Section 53307.
“Ornamental” means any plant which is grown for ornamental purposes, except decorative plants, dormant bulbs, tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes, and pips.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53308. Section 53308.
“Botanical name” means the genus and species, the genus, species, and cultivar name, or the genus and cultivar name given to a plant in accordance with the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53309. Section 53309.
“Cultivar name” means the cultivated variety name given to a plant in accordance with the International Code of Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants, without regard to whether that plant is selected from a wild or cultivated population or produced through hybridization.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53310. Section 53310.
“Blend” means a combination of the same kinds of nursery stock.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53311. Section 53311.
“Mixture” means a combination of two or more kinds of nursery stock.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53312. Section 53312.
“Sod” means grassy surface soil nursery stock held together by matted roots of the grass.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 53313. Section 53313.
“Turf” means grassy surface soil nursery stock consisting of grass cultivars, mixtures or blends of grass cultivars, and dichondra for use in residential and commercial landscapes.
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