UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710001
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| 1971 UMS Afghanistan af-b Reproduction | |
|---|---|
| UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710001 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Accession Type | Reproduction |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Unknown provenance |
| Harvest Date | 21 October 1971 |
| Collector | M.W. Quimby |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Harvard University Herbaria |
| Catalogue Number | ECON 00947793, ECON 00947797 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. Small (1976) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Genetic Relationships | |
1971 UMS Afghanistan af-b Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis sativa grown from seed recorded as coming from Afghanistan. It is known from two herbarium sheets that M. W. Quimby gathered on 21 October 1971 at the University of Mississippi, whose labels carry the code af-b and give Afghanistan as the seed source. The sheets are held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria.[1][2]
Seed lot
One label reads Afghanistan - seed source[1] and the other seed source : Afghanistan.[2] Two weeks later Quimby gathered a sheet of Afghan seed coded af-c17 (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710002). In 1972 the university's garden grew Afghan seed under the codes Af A (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720001), which its labels call the first seed lot, Af A1 (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720001-R1), its first generation, and Af B (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720002), the second seed lot.
Grow-out
The plants grew on university land at University, in Lafayette County, Mississippi, under cultivation in silt-like soil (loess).[1] In 1968 the National Institute of Mental Health offered a contract for the supply of standardised marijuana to researchers, and Norman Doorenbos, who chaired the university's Department of Pharmacognosy, won it. The university's own account of the programme says that the first experimental plot, grown that year, was sown with seed from Mexico, Panama, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon, and that a secured garden was built in 1969 for the first substantial crop.[3]
Specimens and identification
Both sheets came to Harvard from the herbarium of the Department of Pharmacognosy of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Ernest Small determined them as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica; Harvard dates the determinations 16 February 1976 (one) and 17 February 1976 (one).[1] Harvard files them under that name.
| Barcode | Accession no. | Date | Code | Label remark (Harvard transcription) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00947793[1] | ECON 35062 | 1971-10-21 | af-b | Afghanistan - seed source |
| 00947797[2] | ECON 35061 | 1971-10-21 | af-b | seed source : Afghanistan |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00947793". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00947797". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "History". Marijuana Research. School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi. Archived from the original on 24 January 2026. Retrieved 8 October 2026.