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CDA - California Department of Food and Agriculture

Specimen Records: 67,274
Media Records: 27,991
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-18

Founded by 1911 as the herbarium of the California Horticultural Commission, the Botany Lab and Herbarium of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (Plant Pest Diagnostics Center) serves as the plant diagnostic and identification service for California, and is the repository for the state collection of noxious weed and agricultural plant specimens. Size of collection: ca. 60,000 plant specimens. Notable collections include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, T. C. Fuller, G. Douglas Barbe, G. F. Hrusa, D. G Kelch, and G. L. Stout. The Gilbert L. Stout Plant Disease Herbarium (CDA-BPS) has ca. 10,000 unaccessioned specimens, integration into CDA is in progress. Collections are available via the CCH2 PortalAlgae collections dataset for the California Department of Food and Agriculture - Algae (CDA) are available via the Macroalgae Portal Fungi collections dataset for the California Department of Food and Agriculture - Fungi (CDA) are available via the MyCoPortal The CDFA PPDC Seed Herbarium has ca. 30,000 accessions in the Seed and Fruit Collection (CDA SFC), and is curated and databased separately from CDA (curator Emi Kuroiwa). Notable collections in CDA-SFC include those of CDFA and County Agricultural Commissioner staff, M. K. Bellue, B. Crampton, P. B. Kennedy, D. Baxter, B. M. Browning, D. Decker-Walters, and C. Dremann.

Contacts

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Emailjyost@calpoly.edu
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Emailjyost@calpoly.edu
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Emailcheryl.blomquist@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Cheryl Blomquist
RoleEnvironmental Program Manager I
Emailcheryl.blomquist@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Umesh Kodira
RoleEnvironmental Program Manager II
Emailumesh.kodira@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Samuel Skibicki
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Emailsamuel.skibicki@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Cheryl Blomquist
RoleEnvironmental Program Manager I
Emailcheryl.blomquist@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Umesh Kodira
RoleEnvironmental Program Manager II
Emailumesh.kodira@cdfa.ca.gov
Name Samuel Skibicki
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Emailsamuel.skibicki@cdfa.ca.gov
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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