Mona Cielo Azul
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| Kind of name | Trade name |
|---|---|
| Also called | Blue Sky Blond |
| Refers to | A pale marijuana plant from the Cielo Azul heights, reported in 1979 |
Mona Cielo Azul, in English Blue Sky Blond, is a name for a pale Colombian marijuana that the American magazine Time reported in January 1979. Time wrote that "The Cielo Azul heights produce a pale plant known as Blue Sky Blond, developed as a hybrid two years ago with seeds from Thailand."[1]
The report
Time's report on Colombia's drug trade opens in the Guajira and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The sentence on Blue Sky Blond stands in a paragraph on the varieties that crop tasters distinguished. It follows the statement that Santa Marta Gold was still "the most famous of the Colombian line" and that Arhuaco growers at higher altitudes were growing "Mona (blond) plants so pale that they look bleached".[1]
The Spanish name Mona Cielo Azul appears in La noche de las luciérnagas (1980), José Cervantes Angulo's book on the marijuana boom, in a passage that reprints the same report: "Las lomas de Cielo Azul producen otra mata rubia conocida como la 'Mona Cielo Azul', que es el producto híbrido de una derivación lograda con semillas de Tailandia."[2]: 184
Colour names
| Name | Earliest dated source | What the name is applied to |
|---|---|---|
| mona, amarilla | 1976 | a variety called by its popular name, beside negra, in a Santa Marta agronomy thesis[3]: 47; the Santa Marta gold type (Henman; Herrera Fernández)[4]: 275[2]: 304; a paler and stronger type grown higher in the Sierra (Time, "Mona (blond)")[1]; one of "dos variedades" of Colombian marijuana (Semana)[5] |
| punto rojo, Red Point | 1978 | a Cauca type (Henman)[4]: 276; a stronger, resinous type on the Caribbean coast (Herrera Fernández)[2]: 304 |
| la roja de Santa Marta, Santa Marta red | 1978 | one of Henman's four trade types, set beside Panama red[4]: 276 |
| mango viche, mango biche | 1978 | "Llanos green y Cauca green" (Henman)[4]: 276; an export grade, glossed "green mango" (Britto)[6]: ch. 3 |
| la morada | 1973 | a female plant near Aracataca, on the herbarium sheet HUA 534[7] |
| la blanca | 1973 | another female plant gathered the same day, on the sheet HUA 537[8] |
| negra | 1976 | a variety in the 1976 thesis[3]: 47; a highland type at Silvia, Cauca, in 1974 (Henman)[4]: 280; an export grade, glossed "black" (Britto)[6]: ch. 3 |
| Mona Cielo Azul, Blue Sky Blond | 1979 | a pale plant from the Cielo Azul heights, said to be a hybrid made with seed from Thailand (Time)[1] |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "The Colombian Connection". Time. 29 January 1979. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cervantes Angulo, José (1980). La noche de las luciérnagas (in español). Bogotá: Plaza & Janés.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ceballos C., Aníbal S. (1976). Algunos aspectos del cultivo de la marihuana (Cannabis sativa L.) (Tesis de grado (Ingeniero Agrónomo)). Santa Marta: Universidad Tecnológica del Magdalena. hdl:20.500.14923/2103.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Henman, Anthony (2019) [1978]. Mama coca (in español). Translated by Gabriel Iriarte; preface by Wade Davis (8th ed.). Popayán: Editorial Universidad del Cauca. ISBN 978-958-732-345-0.
- ↑ "Bonanza marimbera, adios!". Semana (in español). 1 November 1982. Retrieved 30 October 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Britto, Lina (2020). Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-32547-0.
- ↑ "Occurrence 931007696: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 931007851: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2 November 2026.