Southeastern Tibet
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| Southeastern Tibet | |
|---|---|
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29.65, 94.36 |
| Country | China |
| Provinces/States | Tibet |
| Area | 52,400 km² |
| Growing history | |
| Dated accessions | 1947 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Southeastern Tibet is a cannabis growing region of China, drawn on the prefecture-level city of Nyingchi (林芝, Línzhī) in Tibet, the south-east of Tibet (藏东南, Zàng dōngnán). "South-East Tibet" is the name printed on the labels of the 1947 collection of Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff;[1] Frank Kingdon-Ward used the same name for the country.[2]: 316–317 Kingdon Ward saw hemp among the crops of Payi, on the Tsangpo below the peak of Sanglung, in 1924.[2]: 225 Wild and feral plants from Kongpo were sampled for two genome studies published in 2026.[3][4] Police in Nyingchi reported wild plants in 2021 and 2026.[5][6] The region's growing area is Kongpo.
Geography
The region is drawn on Nyingchi, a prefecture-level city of southeastern Tibet, and its southern edge runs on the frontier with India as OpenStreetMap maps it. Its line follows the ridges round the valleys that hold land below 4,000 m. The high ground of western Gongbo'gyamda, the ranges and glaciers north of Bomê and the high ground of Zayü are left out at its edge, which leaves about 52,400 km².
Hemp in the Tsangpo gorge country and Zayul
Kingdon Ward left England in February 1924 to collect plants in the south-east corner of Tibet.[2] At Payi, at least 300 m (1,000 feet) above the Tsangpo, Kingdon Ward found a much greater variety of crops than in Kongbo: barley in spring, maize in summer and buckwheat and millet in autumn, with castor-oil plants, hemp, chillies, limes, small apples and bananas.[2]: 225
In Zayul, which he reached in 1933, Kingdon Ward saw people "garbed like Tibetans of the poorest class", in "the national hempen dressing gown, called a chupa".[7]: 51
Kongpo
Cai and colleagues assembled the genome of a wild cannabis accession, CSLZ, from cuttings of mother plants collected in Linzhi County at about 3,100 m.[3] Wang and colleagues sampled ten plants of a population from Nyingchi at 2,949 m, which they call feral.[4] Ludlow, Sherriff and H. H. Elliot collected the plant on dry open ground at Shoga Dzong on 15 September 1947 (Ludlow 15714 (1947)).[1] In June 2021 the Lilong border police station of Nyingchi cleared about 170 wild plants at the edge of an idle field.[5] In September 2026 three schoolchildren of Baji village, in Bayi town, reported wild cannabis growing in the village, which the villagers then cleared.[6]
Growing Areas
Accessions
| Accession ID | Name | Collected | Locality | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow 15714 (1947) | Ludlow, Sherriff and Elliot 15714 herbarium specimen, Shoga Dzong (1947) | Shoga Dzong | Kongpo |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Specimen L.1592632". Naturalis Bioportal. Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kingdon Ward, F. (1926). The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. London: Edward Arnold.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cai, Sen; Zhang, Zhiyuan; Li, Xiang; Zhao, Yucheng; Lin, Chengwei; Huang, Manru; Shen, Mingwei; Ao, Deyong; Li, Yaxing; You, Shijun; Bernstein, Nirit; Tang, Kailei; Liu, Yuanyuan (2026). "Haplotype-resolved regulation of secondary metabolism in cannabis". Horticulture Research. 13 (9) uhag159. doi:10.1093/hr/uhag159.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wang, Baishi; Gao, Shan; Wang, Xue; Yun, Quanzheng; Nie, Hao; Li, Ning; Li, Yonggang; Feng, Deri; Li, Linsen; Li, Tianye; Lu, Xu; Liu, Jingjing; Wei, Xuge; Mu, Yanhong; Wu, Qiqi; Hu, Jinyuan; Liu, Fangru; Feng, Rui; Yin, Jianyu; Zhang, Qikun; Zhang, Ying; Ren, Fu (7 September 2026). "Genomic variation in 271 diverse accessions of Cannabis sativa L. in China". BMC Plant Biology. doi:10.1186/s12870-026-09909-5.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 谢牧; 吴敏 (26 June 2021). 西藏边境民警开展毒品原植物清查铲除行动 [Tibet border police search for and eradicate drug-source plants]. 中国新闻网 (in 中文). Retrieved 22 October 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 巴吉村三名学生发现野生大麻及时报告 获评“禁毒小卫士” [Three pupils of Baji village report wild cannabis and are named young drug-control guards]. 西藏商报 (in 中文). 30 September 2026. Retrieved 22 October 2026 – via 林芝市人民政府网.
- ↑ Kingdon Ward, F. (1937) [1934]. A Plant Hunter in Tibet. The Odyssey Library. London: Jonathan Cape.