Murree Hills
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| Murree Hills | |
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| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
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| Forested hills seen from Kashmir Point, Murree | |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Lesser Himalayas (Pakistan) |
| Geography | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| District | Murree District |
| Coordinates | 33.84, 73.43 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 730 km² |
| Terrain | Forested hills; approximately Murree District (Murree and Kotli Sattian tehsils) |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 1 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Murree Hills is a landrace cannabis growing area of wild hemp in Murree District, in the north of Punjab, Pakistan. It covers the hill country of the Murree and Kotli Sattian tehsils, north-east of Rawalpindi, and lies in the Lesser Himalayas growing region. In June and July 2023 Muhammad Younas and colleagues sampled wild hemp at six places in these hills: Murree, Lower Topa, Bhorban, Pagwari, Patriata and Kotli Satian.[1]
Extent
Younas and colleagues count the Murree sites in the Lesser Himalayas, one of their two study areas, and place the Hazara–Murree slopes in the Sub-Outer Himalayas, a belt 8 to 48 km wide.[1] The border of the growing area follows Murree District, which is made up of the Murree and Kotli Sattian tehsils. To the south and west lies the Potohar Plateau growing region, whose border leaves the hill district out.
Wild hemp
The six populations were sampled between 14 June and 29 July 2023. Four of them, at Murree, Lower Topa, Bhorban and Patriata, stood at between about 1,600 and 2,100 m; Pagwari and Kotli Satian lie lower, at about 1,300 m.[1]
Younas and colleagues sorted their 35 populations into three clusters by 16 traits of the plants. Murree, Lower Topa, Bhorban and Patriata fell into the cool and humid cluster of the Lesser Himalayas, with relative humidity above 64 per cent and an average temperature below 15 °C, together with Abbottabad, Nathia Gali and Thandiani. Pagwari and Kotli Satian fell into the two warmer clusters, with the populations of the Potohar Plateau.[1] Across the survey, plant height, stem diameter and the numbers of leaves and branches fell with altitude and humidity and rose with the average temperature. The authors call the populations native landraces of Cannabis sativa.[1]
Accessions
| Accession ID | Name | Collected |
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| NPG-PAK-UNK-0020230002 | Murree General Population |
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Younas, M.; Qureshi, R.; van Velzen, R.; Mashwani, Z.R.; Saqib, Z.; et al. (2024). "Geo-climatic factors co-drive the phenotypic diversity of wild hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in the Potohar Plateau and Lesser Himalayas". BMC Plant Biology. 24 (1) 1031. doi:10.1186/s12870-024-05730-0.