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Page scope

NPG-KOR-SEO-0019170002 is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on two sources: the department's printed inventory entry for plant introduction 44371 (Inventory No. 50 (1922), p. 63) and the entry for PI 44371 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory names the city, the man the seed came from, the nursery and the channel, and the height of the plants in one trial. GRIN-Global states that the lot "no longer exists and can not be requested", so the page gives the lot as gone. No conservation priority is assigned.

Identifier

The identifier NPG-KOR-SEO-0019170002 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence. The department's own number for the lot is PI 44371.

NPG stands for the National Plant Germplasm System of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose database, GRIN-Global, carries the department's plant introductions.
KOR is the ISO code for Korea.
SEO stands for Seoul.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is not known.
Year 1917 is the year the department received the lot.
0002 is the lot's place, in plant-introduction order, among the holder's lots from the same country, province, month and year.

Classification

Neither source says where the plants that bore the seed grew or who grew them, so the accession is classified Unknown. The 4.3 m plants were grown in a trial after the seed arrived.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists the Yokohama Nursery Company Limited and Kato among its sources and files the lot under Kanagawa, Japan. The printed inventory gives the seed as "From Seoul, Chosen", secured by the nursery from Mr. Kato of Seoul. No one is said to have gathered it, so the infobox gives no collector.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Seoul and nothing finer. The coordinate is the point OpenStreetMap gives for Seoul (relation 2297418), 37.57, 126.98, a locality georeference for the city the source names, not a collection point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 15 km, the radius of today's city plus 1 km for the two-decimal form.

Dates

The date the seed was gathered is not known, so the collection date is empty. Both sources give 31 March 1917 as the date of receipt, the lot's received date. The identifier therefore carries month 00 and the year of receipt.

Country

The holder files this lot under Kanagawa, Japan, the nursery's prefecture. The page gives Korea, where the printed inventory says the seed came from.