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Article 1. Definitions of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 18. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the construction of this chapter.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Labeling" means all labels, and other written, printed, or
graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, which accompanies
and pertains to any nursery stock.
"Nursery stock" means all kinds of nursery stock except
decorative plants and seeds.
"Ornamental" means any plant which is grown for ornamental
purposes, except decorative plants, dormant bulbs, tubers, roots,
corms, rhizomes, and pips.
"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.
"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.
"Blend" means a combination of the same kinds of nursery
stock.
"Mixture" means a combination of two or more kinds of
nursery stock.
"Sod" means grassy surface soil nursery stock held together
by matted roots of the grass.
"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.
