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Page scope

NPG-CHN-HLJ-1219060001 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

The accession rests on two sources: the department's printed inventory entry for plant introduction 20855 (Inventory No. 13 (1908), pp. 123, 124) and the entry for PI 20855 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory gives the collector, his two numbers, the date and the market. GRIN-Global states that the lot "no longer exists and can not be requested", so the page gives the lot as gone. No conservation priority is assigned.

Identifier

The identifier NPG-CHN-HLJ-1219060001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence. The department's own number for the lot is PI 20855.

NPG stands for the National Plant Germplasm System of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose database, GRIN-Global, carries the department's plant introductions.
CHN is the ISO code for China.
HLJ stands for Heilongjiang.
Month 12: December, the month the seed was gathered.
Year 1906 is the year the seed was gathered.
0001 is the lot's place, in plant-introduction order, among the holder's lots from the same country, province, month and year.

Classification

The seed was bought in a market where it was sold as bird food, and neither source says where it was grown, so the accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

Meyer bought the seed and numbered it, and GRIN-Global lists him as collector, so he is given as collector. The inventory files two of his numbers, 676a and 677a, under the one introduction; GRIN-Global gives only 677a.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Harbin and nothing finer. The point 45.76, 126.63 is the point OpenStreetMap gives for the city of Harbin (relation 2755608), a locality georeference for the place the source names, not a collection point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 10 km, the radius of the city's built-up core.

Dates

The collection date, 19 December 1906, is the day Meyer bought the seed, as both sources give it. The department received the consignment on 11 April 1907, the lot's received date.