UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001

1972 UMS Korea K A Reproduction
UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001
At a Glance
Accession Type	Reproduction
Location
Country	Korea
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Unknown provenance
Harvest Date	1972
Collector	R.E. Schultes,T.C. Plowman,T.E. Lockwood
Specimen
Repository	Harvard University Herbaria
Catalogue Number	ECON 00449601, ECON 00449602, ECON 00449600, ECON 00449592, ECON 00449594, ECON 00449595, ECON 00449599, ECON 00449596
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist
Identified By	E. Small (1976)
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record
Genetic Relationships
Reproductions of this accession 1972 UMS Korea K A1 Reproduction Related accessions 1972 UMS Korea K A1 Reproduction 1972 UMS Korea K A2 Reproduction

1972 UMS Korea K A Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis sativa grown from seed recorded as coming from Korea. It is known from eight herbarium sheets gathered between 31 July and 1 August 1972 by Richard Evans Schultes, Timothy Plowman and T. E. Lockwood in the National Institute of Mental Health Cannabis Garden of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. The labels carry the lot code K A, and six of the eight call it the original sample. The sheets are held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria.

Seed lot

Six labels give the code with the words Korean and original sample. The labels of sheets 00449599 and 00449596 read K A - Korean, first generation. planted 3-21-1972. Five of the eight labels add that the lot was planted on 21 March 1972 (3-21-1972). That season the garden also grew K A1 (UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001-R1), which its labels call a first generation, and K A2 (UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001-R2), a second generation.

Grow-out

The garden lay on university land at University, in Lafayette County, Mississippi. The sheets of this lot carry seven plant numbers, from 82 A to 83 C, one letter to a plant. In 1968 the National Institute of Mental Health offered a contract for the supply of standardised marijuana to researchers, and Norman Doorenbos, who chaired the university's Department of Pharmacognosy, won it. The university's own account of the programme says that the first experimental plot, grown that year, was sown with seed from Mexico, Panama, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon, and that a secured garden was built in 1969 for the first substantial crop. Schultes and his co-authors later wrote that their collections and studies in the extensive Mississippi plantation and elsewhere had shown that the characters of growth habit in cannabis seemed to be genetically stable.^: 356

Specimens and identification

On 16 February 1976 Ernest Small determined the eight sheets as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, the name under which Harvard files them. On the same day he determined the sheets of K A2 as Cannabis sativa var. kafiristanica.

Barcode	Accession no.	Plant	Label remark (Harvard transcription)
00449601	ECON 34962	82 A	K A - Korean, original sample
00449602	ECON 34963	82 B	K A - Korean, original sample
00449600	ECON 34960	82 C	K A - Korean, original sample
00449592	ECON 34961	82 D	K A - original sample, Korean. Planted 3-21-1972
00449594	ECON 21511	82 E	K A - Korean, original sample planted 3-21-1972
00449595	ECON 36143	82 E	K A - Korean, original sample planted 3-21-1972
00449599	ECON 34959	82 F	K A - Korean, first generation. planted 3-21-1972
00449596	ECON 34956	83 C	K A - Korean, first generation. planted 3-21-1972