Talk:Callaway s.n., Natal (1857)

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Page scope

Callaway s.n., Natal (1857) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

Kew's catalogue remark reads Branch of male plant in bud. Natal, S. Africa; received from Rev. Dr. Callaway, 1857, and the sheet is inscribed rec'd. from Revd. Dr. Callaway 1857. The year is the year the sheet was received. The plant came under the name Insango, and who gathered it is not recorded. Neither the label nor the catalogue gives a habitat, a use or a note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. It shows no continuing population and no living germplasm holding, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

No point is given. The sheet reads Natal, S. Africa: it names the colony of Natal as a whole, an area far larger than a district, and no place within it. The colony is the finest place named. An earlier version of this note said the same in fewer words.

Editorial treatment

The date is a receipt date and the accession carries the year alone. Kew's catalogue renders it as 1857-01-01 with day precision and flags its own rendering as padded. Writing a month or a day for this sheet would be inventing precision the source does not carry.

The province field is left empty: Natal as it stood in 1857 does not correspond to a present-day province, and the catalogue gives none.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:26, 24 September 2026 (+07)