Bortala
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| Bortala | |
|---|---|
| 博尔塔拉 (Bó'ěrtǎlā); Borotala | |
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Xinjiang |
| Geography | |
| Country | China |
| Province/State | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture |
| Coordinates | 44.90, 82.07 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 19,300 km² |
| Terrain | The valley of the Bortala and the border country round it, in Bole, Alashankou, Jinghe County and Wenquan County, with Shuanghe; approximately the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture |
| Growing history | |
| Dated accessions | 1931 |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 1 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Bortala is a cannabis growing area in the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, China, on the frontier with Kazakhstan. It is part of the Northern Xinjiang growing region. Cannabis grows wild there. The prefecture's border force said in 2016 that the climate of the Bortala border area suits wild cannabis, and that it organises a clearance every summer and autumn; that year it had cleared 108,000 plants by late June.[1] In 2025 the police of Bole, the prefecture's capital, found about 210,000 wild plants on one patrol.[2]
Wild stands and clearances
From the middle of June 2016 the border force of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture cleared wild stands across its district, 108,000 plants by 24 June.[1] On 24 June 2016 the public security bureau of the Bole reclamation area of the Fifth Division of the Production and Construction Corps cleared more than 100,000 wild plants.[3]
On 4 June 2025 the police of the Bole reclamation area and the Haerdun border police station found a large stand in the woodland of a company of the 87th Regiment, which they confirmed as wild cannabis. With the company's residents they cleared more than 19,000 plants and searched the ground round about for seedlings.[4] A report of September 2025 said that police officers of Bole on a line patrol had found about 210,000 wild plants, which several departments cleared together; no one held the land where they grew under contract or lease.[2]
Herbarium specimens
A. Regel collected a sheet on the lower Bortala (Untere Borotala) in August 1878, Regel s.n., Bortala (1878), now in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris.[5] T. N. Liou collected Liou 3403 (1931) on river flats near a gorge at 1,600 m on 18 August 1931; the Yangling duplicate names the plant as wild,[6] and the catalogue of the Beijing sheet places it in Bole.[7]
Appellations
No appellation pages exist for this growing area yet.
Accessions
| Accession ID | Name | Locality | Elevation | Collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liou 3403 (1931) | Liou 3403 herbarium specimen, Sinkiang (1931) | 1,600 m |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "新疆博尔塔拉边防铲除野生大麻10万余株" [Bortala border force in Xinjiang clears more than 100,000 wild cannabis plants]. 新民网 (in 中文). 中国新闻网. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "【禁毒宣传】哇！好一大片野生大麻！" [Drug-control publicity: a large stand of wild cannabis]. 新湖南 (in 中文). 19 September 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ "新疆生产建设兵团第五师博乐垦区公安局铲除万株野生大麻" [Public security bureau of the Bole reclamation area, Fifth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, eradicates wild cannabis]. 中国禁毒网 (in 中文). 7 July 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
- ↑ "五师公安：野生大麻悄悄长？民警"偶遇"后及时铲除" [Fifth Division police clear wild cannabis found on patrol]. 第五师双河市人民政府 (in 中文). 12 June 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 731731223: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
- ↑ "Digitised sheet WUK0001289: Cannabis sativa". Chinese Virtual Herbarium image service. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 1303710379: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
