Reports of people receiving seeds in the mail have grown to cover multiple provinces here in Canada and a number of states in the U.S.
Late last week the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued warnings not to plant any of the seeds that people were reporting they were getting in the mail from China.
Now those reports of unsolicited seeds have stretched to Manitoba and Alberta.
In the U.S., the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service may have identified what those seeds are.
According to a statement from the USDA, some of the seeds that have been identified are not uniform but include a mixture of ornamental, fruit and vegetable, herb, and weed seeds.
Both the CFIA and the U.S. Inspection Service say they could introduce invasive plants, damaging pests and diseases that could be harmful to local agriculture.
