Can you decipher a Plant Passport label? Below are a couple of examples to help you to
translate the information contained in them.
You’ll find them on many plants and it is worth making a note if it’s an interesting, unusual,
rare or expensive plant in case something goes wrong. You can go back to the nursery you
bought the plant from with the information and it will help the staff to trace the origin or batch
so they can get more information from the source.
This is a UK Plant Passport Label
A: Botanical name: can be genus and species but varieties are not required (in this case the
plant is a runner bean)
B: Registration number of the grower, which is the Plant Passport number too (this number
is a UK grower – it’s an early registration number so the grower has been established for
many years)
C: The grower’s traceability or batch code
D: the two-letter country code indicating the country of origin or despatch (in this case The
Netherlands)
This is an EU Plant Passport label
A: Botanical name: Geum
B: Registration number of the grower: this number has given to the grower by his or her
Belgian Plant Health department
C: The grower’s traceability or batch code: in this case it’s 2025 and the variety is “Tutti
Frutti’
D: the two-letter country code: in this case Belgium