Ward 6218 (1967)

Ward 6218 herbarium gathering, Isipingo Flats, Durban (1967)
Ward 6218 (1967)
Ward 6218, the University of Natal sheet held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E01459338 (CC BY-SA 2.5, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
At a Glance
Classification	Feral
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Isipingo Flats
Coordinates	-29.966667, 30.95
Elevation	5 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	30 March 1967
Collector	C. J. Ward
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0059638-0
Collector Number	Ward, C.J. 6218
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

29.97° S, 30.95° E

Elevation used

10 m computed, GMTED2010 (1 km), at this point

Köppen class

Cfa

Clock

UTC+2

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	04:42	05:11	05:33	05:51	06:08	06:23	06:25	06:06	05:31	04:54	04:27	04:22
Sunrise	05:09	05:36	05:57	06:15	06:33	06:50	06:51	06:30	05:55	05:18	04:53	04:50
Sunset	19:01	18:44	18:15	17:38	17:11	17:03	17:14	17:32	17:48	18:05	18:30	18:53
Last light	19:28	19:09	18:39	18:02	17:37	17:29	17:39	17:56	18:12	18:30	18:56	19:21
Daylighth	13h52	13h08	12h18	11h23	10h38	10h14	10h23	11h01	11h53	12h47	13h37	14h03
Changemin/day	−1.0	−1.7	−1.8	−1.7	−1.2	−0.2	+0.8	+1.5	+1.8	+1.8	+1.4	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	26	27	26	25	24	22	21	22	22	23	24	25
Avg daily low°C	22	22	21	19	17	15	14	15	16	17	19	20
Swing°C	5	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	5	5
Water and light
Rainmm	121	112	92	60	41	26	36	41	64	94	108	114
VPDkPa	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.0
Sunlightmol/m²/d	43	41	36	30	26	23	24	29	33	37	41	43
Field cycle
Cycle

• Planting
• Growing
• Harvest
• Not recorded / off season

No field cycle is recorded on this accession's page.

Day and night computed from the sun's position on the 15th of each month; climate normals 1981–2010 from CHELSA V2.1 · About these figures

Ward 6218 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Isipingo Flats in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on 30 March 1967 by C. J. Ward. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0059638-0. The National Herbarium (PRE) holds a second sheet as PRE0372441-0, and a third at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, E01459338, is a University of Natal sheet whose label Edinburgh's catalogue does not transcribe.

Collection and locality

Durban's entry gives the date as 30 March 1967, the locality as Durban District: Isipingo Flats (E)., the habitat as Altitude : 15-20ft. and the altitude as 5 m.

The field note

Durban's plant description carries the collector's own note in full: Herb, erect, branched, 92cm tall, in disturbed pale sand, in partial light shade. Only 1 seen, male. [Apparently accidentally planted by man - former eating and resting site of gang recently constructing pipe line.] The square brackets are the catalogue's. The note attributes the plant to seed dropped where a pipeline gang had been eating and resting.

The Edinburgh sheet

The Edinburgh sheet is a University of Natal Herbarium card, which makes it a sheet of the herbarium that publishes least about its own holdings. It reads Natal: Durban district; ISIPINGO FLATS (E) (29 deg 58 min S, 30 deg 57 min E)., Coll. C. J. WARD., Coll's. No. 6218, Date 30-3-67, and carries the same field note. Edinburgh's own catalogue records no collector, number, date or country for it, filing it under the region Southern Africa.

Specimen and identification

All three sheets are filed as Cannabis sativa L. var. sativa.