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La mona covers the Colombian name la mona (mona, amarilla): its use on the Caribbean coast for the Santa Marta gold type, for a paler highland type, as a variety name in a 1976 thesis, and as a general word in Medellín. The export name belongs to Santa Marta Gold.
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Where the sources differ
- One word, several uses. Herrera Fernández and Henman use la mona for the Santa Marta gold type; Time (1979) for a stronger type grown by Arhuaco growers higher in the Sierra; Spitaletta for marijuana in general in Medellín.
- Arhuaco growers. Time attributes the highland Mona to "the Arhuaco Indians". Settlers interviewed by Martínez González (2011) did not link the Indigenous people of the Sierra with marijuana growing. The Landrace Team's seed listing says the Indigenous peoples of the Sierra never grew cannabis; that is a seller's claim and is not used.
- Colour. Henman's girdling explanation is an account of the colour, not of the name.
- The 1976 thesis does not say where its seed lots of Negra and Mona came from. The author's given name is printed without a clear accent on the title page: the surname alone is safe.
- The Paris Match reprint (Cervantes Angulo, pp. 172–173) is read from a poor scan, so it is paraphrased rather than quoted.
Title, kind and other names
- Title. La mona, the form Herrera Fernández, Henman and Spitaletta use, in sentence case as a local name.
- Kind. Local name.
- Meaning. "Blonde": Time glosses it "Mona (blond)".
- Redirects. La Mona.
- First recorded. 1976, the agronomy thesis.
- Accessions. The infobox searches "La mona" and "Mona"; no accession carries either (2 November 2026).