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Identifier
The accession identifier is EAG-UGA-UNK-0120200001, built from the holder, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, the province segment, the month, the year and the sequence number.
- Holder segment
EAGstands for East Africa Genes. - Year 2020 is the year of the first dated document that lists the line: the catalogue capture of 7 August 2020. No source gives a collection year, so the identifier takes the first attested year. It is a lower bound, not a collection date, and the collection date field is empty.
- Month 01 is the placeholder used when the year comes from first attestation.
- Province segment. Birere could not be placed in one region (see Georeferencing), so the province field is empty and the segment is
UNK. - Sequence
0001. First of the two Ugandan lines without a region in the order of the August 2020 capture (Birere, then Nimule).
Sourcing
The catalogue page Pure African Strains (https://eastafricagenes.blog/pure-african-strains/) was read as it stood on 8 October 2026 and in twelve archived captures from 7 August 2020 to 4 June 2023 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/eastafricagenes.blog/pure-african-strains/). No capture between June 2023 and the current page could be read. The seller's Overgrow adverts of 22 November 2023 (https://overgrow.com/t/ugandan-kerosene-landrace-from-birere-uganda/129622/1) and 30 April 2024 (https://overgrow.com/t/a-uganda-landrace-sativa-that-reminds-you-of-kerosene/148704/1) were read from saved copies.
No collector, farmer, collection site or collection date is named.
Typing
- Classification: Landrace. The seller's catalogue says that around Birere most cannabis is grown between maize plantings, in a place whose people live mainly by fishing and subsistence farming. The seller also says that it collects its seed on road trips in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (see East Africa Genes). That ties the line to local farmers. The accession is classified Landrace, by inference from the seller's account, which names no farm, collection site or date; the seller's adverts place Birere differently, in eastern and in western Uganda, which does not bear on the class. The account has not been checked against other sources. An earlier version of this note classified the line as Other, on the ground that a seller's account does not establish the class of the source population.
- Sourcing type: Unknown provenance. No source gives a chain of custody from a growing population to the seed on sale.
- Accession type is left empty: the sources do not say whether the seed on sale was gathered from growers or reproduced from earlier seed.
- Traits. The flavours and effects in the article are the seller's words. The catalogue's "Vegetation & Flowering" figure counts vegetative growth and flowering together, so it is reported in the article and not entered as a flowering time.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The name resolves to more than one place: OpenStreetMap has two places named Birere in Uganda, both villages in the Western Region: one in Sheema District (node 2229101109), 146 km from the shore of Lake Victoria and 68 km from the border with Rwanda, and one in Isingiro District (node 2229101110), 109 km from the lake and 45 km from Rwanda. Neither fits the catalogue's "eastern town near Lake Victoria"; both are loosely near the Rwandan border of the seller's 2024 advert, and the sources do not say which is meant. No place of that name was found in Tanzania; in Rwanda the name belongs only to streams.
Source discrepancies
- Where Birere is. Catalogue (2020 to now) and the November 2023 advert: in eastern Uganda, near Lake Victoria. April 2024 advert: in western Uganda, close to the Uganda–Rwanda border.
Conservation priority
Not rated. The sources give nothing about the size or status of the source population.