Medley Wood 3849 (1887)

Medley Wood 3849 herbarium gathering, Durban Botanic Gardens (1887)
Medley Wood 3849 (1887)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	KwaZulu-Natal
Locality	Durban Botanic Gardens
Coordinates	-29.625, 30.625
Elevation	45 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	1887
Collector	J. Medley Wood
Specimen
Repository	KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH)
Catalogue Number	NH0003536-0
Collector Number	Medley-Wood, J. 3849
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

29.62° S, 30.62° E

Elevation used

479 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	04:45	05:13	05:34	05:52	06:09	06:24	06:25	06:07	05:32	04:56	04:29	04:25
Sunrise	05:11	05:38	05:58	06:16	06:34	06:50	06:51	06:31	05:56	05:20	04:55	04:52
Sunset	19:01	18:45	18:16	17:39	17:13	17:05	17:16	17:33	17:49	18:06	18:30	18:54
Last light	19:28	19:10	18:40	18:03	17:38	17:31	17:41	17:58	18:13	18:30	18:56	19:21
Daylighth	13h50	13h07	12h18	11h23	10h39	10h15	10h24	11h02	11h53	12h46	13h36	14h02
Changemin/day	−1.0	−1.7	−1.8	−1.7	−1.2	−0.2	+0.8	+1.5	+1.7	+1.7	+1.3	+0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	27	27	26	25	23	21	22	23	24	24	25	26
Avg daily low°C	18	18	17	15	11	8	8	10	12	14	15	17
Swing°C	9	8	9	10	12	13	13	13	12	10	10	9
Water and light
Rainmm	112	101	81	38	22	16	19	28	53	86	105	116
VPDkPa	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9
Sunlightmol/m²/d	40	39	35	31	27	25	26	30	34	36	39	40
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

Medley Wood 3849 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa, determined as var. indica collected at Durban Botanic Gardens in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 1887 by J. Medley Wood. The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium (NH) holds the sheet as NH0003536-0.

Collection and locality

The database gives the year as 1887, with the month and day blank, the locality as In Botanic Gardens. and the altitude as 45 m. John Medley Wood was curator of the Durban Botanic Gardens at the time and had founded its Colonial Herbarium five years earlier.

Specimen and identification

The sheet is filed as Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer. The database names no determiner and publishes no image.