Talk:EBC 43415 (s.d.)
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Evidentiary scope
This is an object rather than a field gathering: it has a donor and a provenance and no collector, no number and no date. It documents cannabis material in circulation out of South Africa in the late nineteenth century. It shows neither a continuing population nor a living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. The accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.
Kew publishes no image of this object. Its record page reads No Image, and none of the seventeen imaged Cannabis objects in the collection is South African. Kew's Economic Botany office states that it has no in-house photographer but can sometimes have objects photographed to order for research and publication.
Georeferencing
The object has no locality finer than the region its geography line names, and no coordinate. None is asserted.
Editorial treatment
The entry book number is not a collection date. Kew's help page defines an Entry Book Number as a number assigned to each group of specimens at the point of acquisition, running in a series each year. This object's number, 7.1888, means it was the seventh entry of 1888 at Kew. Its collection date field is blank, and the accession carries no date. Kew's Museum Entry Books, which the help page says give donation date, place of origin and collector name, are held in the Economic Botany office and are not digitised; they would settle it.
Kew's determination stops at genus, so the scientific-name field carries Cannabis L. and not Cannabis sativa.
The object is prepared fibre, which means it documents a processing step as well as a plant.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:24, 24 September 2026 (+07)