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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on 10 herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Vietnam as its origin. They show that seed said to be Vietnamese was grown there; they do not show where in Vietnam 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-VNM-UNK-0019720001 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.VNMis the ISO code for Vietnam, the recorded seed origin.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1972 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 call V A1 the first generation of the first seed lot. In the Turkish lots of the same garden the labels run T A - Turkish, original sample, T A 1 - Turkish - first generation of original sample and T A 2 - Turkish, second generation of original sample. Read that way, V A would be the seed as received, but the labels do not say whether the V A1 plants grew from that seed or from seed of an earlier planting. Harvard's catalogue holds no sheet coded V A. Quimby's 1970 lot (Code V, UMS-VNM-UNK-0019700001) may be the same seed, but no label or source read so far says so, so no parent accession is set. The sourcing type follows the label's first generation.
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Vietnam, 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 Vietnamese seed, and no place in Vietnam 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 planting date, 21 March 1972, comes from the labels.
Plant numbers
Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 86 A: a figure shared by every sheet 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 is in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.
- Plants 86 G and 86 I have two sheets each.
- 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.
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 02:38, 9 October 2026 (+07)