EBC 43423 (by 1910)

Kew Economic Botany object 43423, hemp from Japan, given by the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910
EBC 43423 (by 1910)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	Japan
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Specimen
Repository	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Catalogue Number	EBC 43423
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	Boodle
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

EBC 43423 is an accession of hemp, Cannabis sativa, from Japan. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew holds it in its Economic Botany Collection as EBC 43423. Kew records its donor as the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910, which gave it with four more samples of hemp from Japan.

The catalogue entry

The catalogue gives the artefact name and the parts held as Hemp, the plant name as 153.04 CANNABACEAE Cannabis sativa, the use as MATERIALS - Fibres with the user Man, the country and the geography description as Japan, the storage as Bottles, boxes etc, the entry book number as 145.1910 and the donor as Japan-British Exhibition 1910. The catalogue leaves the collector, collector's number, donor number, donor date and collection date blank.

Kew assigns entry book numbers to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, in a series that runs each year, so 145.1910 places the sample's arrival at Kew in 1910. The same entry number and donor are recorded for four more samples from Japan: EBC 43437 and EBC 43456, catalogued as Hemp, and EBC 43440 and EBC 43462, catalogued as Hemp fibre. Entry 146.1910, from the same donor, is a sample of hemp fibre from Korea, EBC 43439 (by 1910). Kew also publishes the entry to GBIF, with the locality Japan.

Specimen and identification

Kew files the sample as Cannabis sativa. Kew's entry on GBIF names Boodle, a surname with no initials, as its identifier. No image of it is published.