La morada
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| Kind of name | Local name |
|---|---|
| Also called | Morada La Morada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Refers to | A female marijuana plant gathered near Aracataca in 1973 |
| Country | Colombia |
|---|---|
| Places | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
| First recorded | 1973[1] |
- Partridge s.n., Aracataca (1973), HUA 534 (Partridge herbarium specimen "la morada", Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta near Aracataca (1973))
La morada is a local name for a marijuana plant, written on a herbarium sheet of a female plant gathered on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta near Aracataca, in northern Colombia, on 21 September 1973.[1] The collector, the anthropologist William L. Partridge, noted on the sheet that it was a "female plant called 'la morada' locally".[2] The sheet is held in the herbarium of the University of Antioquia in Medellín as HUA 534.[1]
The sheet
Partridge's note is handwritten in English below a Spanish heading, la Hembra - morada (the female, morada).[2] The herbarium's catalogue transcribes it as "Female plant called La Morada", gives the locality as Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. cerca de Aracataca in Magdalena, and files the sheet as Cannabis sativa L., in flower.[1] The herbarium holds other sheets that Partridge gathered the same day: HUA 537, a female plant whose note calls it la blanca,[3] and the female and male stems of one plant, HUA 536.
Partridge wrote the chapter on cannabis in a Colombian municipio in the volume Cannabis and Culture (1975).[4]
Colour names
| Name | Earliest dated source | What the name is applied to |
|---|---|---|
| mona, amarilla | 1976 | a variety called by its popular name, beside negra, in a Santa Marta agronomy thesis[5]: 47; the Santa Marta gold type (Henman; Herrera Fernández)[6]: 275[7]: 304; a paler and stronger type grown higher in the Sierra (Time, "Mona (blond)")[8]; one of "dos variedades" of Colombian marijuana (Semana)[9] |
| punto rojo, Red Point | 1978 | a Cauca type (Henman)[6]: 276; a stronger, resinous type on the Caribbean coast (Herrera Fernández)[7]: 304 |
| la roja de Santa Marta, Santa Marta red | 1978 | one of Henman's four trade types, set beside Panama red[6]: 276 |
| mango viche, mango biche | 1978 | "Llanos green y Cauca green" (Henman)[6]: 276; an export grade, glossed "green mango" (Britto)[10]: ch. 3 |
| la morada | 1973 | a female plant near Aracataca, on the herbarium sheet HUA 534[1] |
| la blanca | 1973 | another female plant gathered the same day, on the sheet HUA 537[3] |
| negra | 1976 | a variety in the 1976 thesis[5]: 47; a highland type at Silvia, Cauca, in 1974 (Henman)[6]: 280; an export grade, glossed "black" (Britto)[10]: ch. 3 |
| Mona Cielo Azul, Blue Sky Blond | 1979 | a pale plant from the Cielo Azul heights, said to be a hybrid made with seed from Thailand (Time)[8] |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Occurrence 931007696: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Photograph of herbarium sheet HUA 534". landrace.wiki (Photograph). Herbario Universidad de Antioquia. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occurrence 931007851: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ Partridge, William L. (1975). "Cannabis and Cultural Groups in a Colombian Municipio". In Rubin, Vera (ed.). Cannabis and Culture. The Hague: Mouton. pp. 147–172. doi:10.1515/9783110812060.147.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ceballos C., Aníbal S. (1976). Algunos aspectos del cultivo de la marihuana (Cannabis sativa L.) (Tesis de grado (Ingeniero Agrónomo)). Santa Marta: Universidad Tecnológica del Magdalena. hdl:20.500.14923/2103.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Henman, Anthony (2019) [1978]. Mama coca (in español). Translated by Gabriel Iriarte; preface by Wade Davis (8th ed.). Popayán: Editorial Universidad del Cauca. ISBN 978-958-732-345-0.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cervantes Angulo, José (1980). La noche de las luciérnagas (in español). Bogotá: Plaza & Janés.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "The Colombian Connection". Time. 29 January 1979. Retrieved 2 November 2026.
- ↑ "Bonanza marimbera, adios!". Semana (in español). 1 November 1982. Retrieved 30 October 2026.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Britto, Lina (2020). Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-32547-0.
