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Hopar Valley General Population 2022
Hopar Valley General Population 2022 is a landrace cannabis accession from the Hopar Valley, Pakistan, listed as Hopar Valley in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC). RSC classifies it as a Karakoram landrace and describes it as Indica-type.
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William Richard Carles
William Richard Carles (1848–1929) was a British consular official in China and Korea. He went to China as a student interpreter in 1867 and was appointed provisional vice-consul for Korea in March 1884. His book Life in Corea (1888) describes his journeys in Korea in 1883 and 1884, during which he saw hemp grown as a field crop in the north and hempen cloth on sale in its markets.{{rp|145, 184, 212}} He collected plants in China and Korea. Viburnum carlesii was described in 1888 partly from a specimen he gathered in Korea.{{rp|350}} The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds a sheet of Cannabis sativa from his herbarium, gathered on the banks of the Peiho in June 1885. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew holds hemp fibre and cloth from Korea that he gave in November 1885.
His standard label name is W. R. Carles. read more →
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