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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on five herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Turkey as its origin. They show that seed said to be Turkish was grown there; they do not show where in Turkey the seed was gathered or how it reached the university. No surviving seed of the lot has been traced. The page therefore carries no locality, coordinates, classification or conservation priority.
Identifier
The identifier UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence.
UMSstands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.TURis the ISO code for Turkey, the recorded seed origin.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1972 is the year of the earliest dated sheet of the lot. The seed had reached the university by then; the year is not a collection date.
Lineage
The labels call T A the original sample, and the sourcing type is Unknown provenance: the labels give no generation for it, as for the Vietnamese original sample V B. T A is the head of a chain stated on the labels: T A1 (first generation), T A2 (second) and T A3 (third). They take this identifier with the suffixes -R1, -R2 and -R3, each with the generation before it as its parent. The labels do not say whether the 1972 plants of T A grew from seed kept from the original sample, and none says when or where in Turkey the sample was gathered.
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Turkey, not the place where the plants grew. The grow-out at University, Mississippi, is stated in the article. No coordinate is given and the map is off: a point in Mississippi would misplace Turkish seed, and no place in Turkey is recorded.
Dates
The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. The sheets are dated 31 July to 1 August 1972, a range across two months, so the sample harvest date is stored as the year. The labels give no planting date.
Plant numbers
Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 59 A: a figure shared by every sheet of the lot (59), then a letter for the plant. The figure may be a plot or row number, but no label says so, and the article does not call it one.
- Plant 59 B has two sheets.
Label reading
The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 8 October 2026), where the lot code and seed note are in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.
- Harvard transcribes the code as T A and TA; the page writes T A.
- The collector field lists the three collectors as Harvard credits them. T. E. Lockwood is Tommie Earl Lockwood (1941–1975) in Harvard's botanist index.
- The determination is Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, with no subspecies. The Thai and Vietnamese sheets of the same series were determined by Small on the same day as subsp. indica. The page reports the determinations as Harvard records them and draws nothing from the difference.
Sources not yet read
M. W. Quimby, N. J. Doorenbos, C. E. Turner and A. Masoud described the cultivation and the morphological variation of Mississippi-grown cannabis in Economic Botany 27 (1973): 117–127 (doi:10.1007/BF02862224). The paper may identify the seed sources and explain the lot codes. It has not been read for this page, and nothing here depends on it.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:56, 9 October 2026 (+07)