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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on two herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Afghanistan as its origin. They show that seed said to be Afghan was grown there; they do not show where in Afghanistan the seed was gathered, who supplied it or how it reached the university. No surviving seed of the lot has been traced. The page therefore carries no locality, coordinates, classification or conservation priority.
Identifier
The identifier UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence.
UMSstands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.AFGis the ISO code for Afghanistan, the recorded seed origin.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1971 is the year of the earliest dated sheet of the lot. The seed had reached the university by then; the year is not a collection date.
Lineage
The labels give no generation, so the sourcing type is Unknown provenance. In 1972 the garden grew an Afghan second seed lot coded Af B (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720002). This lot is kept as its own accession: it comes from an earlier season, its code is written differently, and no label says whether the 1971 plants grew from the same seed as the 1972 ones. No parent accession is set; the Afghan lots are linked only as related accessions.
The university's history names Afghanistan among the origins of the seed sown in 1968. No label or source read so far ties that seed to this lot, or says when or where in Afghanistan the seed was gathered.
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Afghanistan, not the place where the plants grew. The grow-out at University, Mississippi, is stated in the article. No coordinate is given and the map is off: a point in Mississippi would misplace Afghan seed, and no place in Afghanistan is recorded.
Dates
The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. 21 October 1971, the date of the sheets, is entered as the sample harvest date.
Label reading
The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 12 October 2026), where the lot code is in the collector-number field and the seed note in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.
- The sheets give the vernacular names Hemp, Indian Hemp, Fimble, Gallow Grass, Grass Marihuana, Marijuana, Hanf, Chanvre, and other, a general list that says nothing of Afghan usage, so it is not entered as a local name.
- The seed note names no supplier and no date of receipt.
- Harvard's botanist index lists the collector as Quimby, Mayhard Ward (born 1905), also known as M. W. Quimby. His 1973 paper in Economic Botany gives his first name as Maynard.
Sources not yet read
M. W. Quimby, N. J. Doorenbos, C. E. Turner and A. Masoud described the cultivation and the morphological variation of Mississippi-grown cannabis in Economic Botany 27 (1973): 117–127 (doi:10.1007/BF02862224). The paper may identify the seed sources and explain the lot codes. It has not been read for this page, and nothing here depends on it.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 09:45, 12 October 2026 (+07)