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Northwest Vietnam
Northwestern Vietnam
ActiveCannabis last recorded here in 2023
Terraced rice fields at Sa Pa from the air
Terraced rice fields at Sa Pa from the air
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Location

Vietnam

Coordinates 22.393660, 103.835500
Country Vietnam
Provinces/States Lào Cai Province
Elevation 1,350–1,400 m
Climate Subtropical highland
Growing history
Dated accessions 2023
Conservation
Populations none documented yet





Northwest Vietnam is a cannabis growing region in the north-western highlands of Vietnam. It has one growing area, Sa Pa, in Lào Cai Province.

Geography

The region's two accessions come from the highlands around the town of Sa Pa, between 1,350 and 1,500 m: a herbarium specimen collected at Sa Pa in 1913 and a fibre population collected at Tả Phìn in 2023.

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Growing Areas

Cultivation

Auguste Chevalier collected the herbarium specimen at Sa Pa on 7 December 1913.[1] The 2023 accession is a general population grown for fibre, collected by Éloïse at Tả Phìn on 18 November 2023, on the VIET01 expedition.

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Conservation status

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Accessions

Accession IDNameGrowing areaLocalityElevation (m)Collected
ZOM-VIE-SAP-1120230001Sa Pa 'Ta Phin' General Population 2023Sa PaTa Phin1350

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References

  1. ↑ "Occurrence 730907353: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 8 October 2026.