Cheek 3151 (2022)

Cheek 3151 herbarium gathering, KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium grounds, Durban (2022)
Cheek 3151 (2022)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Durban Botanic Gardens
Coordinates	-28.84724, 31.00498
Elevation	45 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	2 December 2022
Collector	M. D. Cheek
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0154965-0
Collector Number	Cheek, M.D. 3151
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

28.85° S, 31.00° E

Elevation used

295 m computed, GMTED2010 (1 km), at this point

Köppen class

Cfa

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:45	05:13	05:33	05:50	06:06	06:21	06:22	06:04	05:31	04:55	04:29	04:25
Sunrise	05:11	05:38	05:57	06:14	06:31	06:47	06:48	06:29	05:54	05:19	04:55	04:52
Sunset	18:58	18:43	18:14	17:38	17:13	17:05	17:16	17:33	17:48	18:04	18:27	18:50
Last light	19:25	19:07	18:38	18:02	17:38	17:31	17:41	17:57	18:12	18:28	18:53	19:17
Daylighth	13h47	13h05	12h17	11h25	10h42	10h19	10h28	11h04	11h54	12h45	13h33	13h58
Changemin/day	−1.0	−1.6	−1.7	−1.6	−1.2	−0.2	+0.8	+1.5	+1.7	+1.7	+1.3	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	31	30	29	28	26	23	23	25	27	27	28	30
Avg daily low°C	20	20	19	16	13	10	10	12	14	16	17	19
Swing°C	11	10	10	11	12	13	13	14	13	12	11	11
Water and light
Rainmm	122	108	80	38	20	17	20	27	49	89	103	106
VPDkPa	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.2
Sunlightmol/m²/d	43	41	36	30	25	23	24	28	34	37	41	43
Field cycle
Cycle

• Planting
• Growing
• Harvest
• Not recorded / off season

No field cycle is recorded on this accession's page.

Day and night computed from the sun's position on the 15th of each month; climate normals 1981–2010 from CHELSA V2.1 · About these figures

Cheek 3151 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Durban Botanic Gardens in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 2 December 2022 by M. D. Cheek. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0154965-0.

Collection and locality

The database gives the date as 2 December 2022, the locality as [Durban Botanic Gardens], KZN Herbarium grounds., the habitat as Hill slope. Gentle slope. and the altitude as 45 m. The square brackets are the catalogue's own.

Field description

The database's plant description reads Shrub, 1.6m high. Green leaves, small, green-white flowers.

Specimen and identification

The sheet is filed as Cannabis sativa L. It was catalogued into BODATSA in February 2025.