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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on four herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Turkey as its origin. They show that seed said to be Turkish was grown there; they do not show where in Turkey the seed was gathered 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-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R2 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence, reproduction suffix.
UMSstands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.TURis the ISO code for Turkey, the recorded seed origin.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1972 and the sequence are those of the original sample, T A (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001): a reproduction takes its parent line's identifier.
-R2: the generation the labels state.
Lineage
The labels call T A2 the second generation of the original sample, T A. The accession takes T A's identifier with the suffix -R2, and its parent is the generation before it, T A1: a second generation is grown from the one before. The labels do not name the parent plants or say in which year the T A2 seed was harvested. The sourcing type is Multi-generation reproduction.
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Turkey, 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 Turkish seed, and no place in Turkey is recorded.
Dates
The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. The sheets are dated 31 July to 1 August 1972, a range across two months, so the sample harvest date is stored as the year. The labels give no planting date.
Plant numbers
Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 60 A: a figure (60 and 61) shared by groups of sheets of the lot, then a letter for the plant. The figure may be a plot or row number, but no label says so, and the article does not call it one.
Label reading
The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 8 October 2026), where the lot code and seed note are in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.
- Harvard transcribes the code as T A 2 and T A2; the page writes T A2.
- The collector field lists the three collectors as Harvard credits them. T. E. Lockwood is Tommie Earl Lockwood (1941–1975) in Harvard's botanist index.
- The determination is Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, with no subspecies. The Thai and Vietnamese sheets of the same series were determined by Small on the same day as subsp. indica. The page reports the determinations as Harvard records them and draws nothing from the difference.
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.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:57, 9 October 2026 (+07)