UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720001-R1
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| 1972 UMS Afghanistan Af A1 Reproduction | |
|---|---|
| UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720001-R1 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Accession Type | Reproduction |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | First generation reproduction |
| Harvest Date | 1972 |
| Collector | R.E. Schultes,T.C. Plowman,T.E. Lockwood,J.F. Maxwell |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Harvard University Herbaria |
| Catalogue Number | ECON 00947915, ECON 01564242, ECON 01564235, ECON 01564247, ECON 01564237, ECON 01564244, ECON 01564243, ECON 01564245, ECON 01564239, ECON 01564240, ECON 01564241, ECON 01564246, ECON 01564238, ECON 00947795, ECON 00947796 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. Small (1976) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Genetic Relationships | |
1972 UMS Afghanistan Af A1 Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis sativa grown from seed recorded as coming from Afghanistan. It is known from fifteen herbarium sheets gathered between 31 July and 1 August 1972 in the National Institute of Mental Health Cannabis Garden of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, by Richard Evans Schultes, Timothy Plowman and T. E. Lockwood; Harvard credits three of the sheets to J. F. Maxwell alone. The labels carry the lot code Af A1 and most read first seed lot, first generation. The sheets are held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria.[1][2]
Seed lot
Fourteen of the fifteen labels call the seed the Afghan first seed lot, first generation, with the code written af a1, AF a1 or AF a 1.[1] The label of sheet 00947796, plant 66 B, reads AF a 1 Afghanistan, planted 5 May 1972.[3] No other label gives a planting date. The first seed lot itself, Af A (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720001), and the second seed lot, Af B (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019720002), grew in the garden the same season. M. W. Quimby had grown Afghan seed at the university in 1971 under the codes af-b (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710001) and af-c17 (UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710002).
Grow-out
The garden lay on university land at University, in Lafayette County, Mississippi. The sheets of this lot carry ten plant numbers: 51 A, 51 B, 51 C, 51 D, 51 E, 51 H, 51 J, 51 d, 51 k and 66 B.[4] 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.[5] Schultes and his co-authors later wrote that their collections and studies in the extensive Mississippi plantation and elsewhere had shown that the characters of growth habit in cannabis seemed to be genetically stable.[6]: 356
Specimens and identification
Ernest Small determined the fifteen sheets as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica; Harvard dates the determinations 16 February 1976 (fourteen) and 16 February 1986 (one).[1] Harvard files them under that name.
| Barcode | Accession no. | Plant | Sex | Label remark (Harvard transcription) |
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| 00947915[1] | ECON 35089 | AF a1 - Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | ||
| 01564242[4] | ECON 35102 | 51 A | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564235[2] | ECON 35100 | 51 B | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot first generation | |
| 01564247[7] | ECON 35101 | 51 B | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564237[8] | ECON 35099 | 51 C | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564244[9] | ECON 35098 | 51 D | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564243[10] | ECON 35095 | 51 E | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564245[11] | ECON 35096 | 51 E | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564239[12] | ECON 35093 | 51 H | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564240[13] | ECON 35092 | 51 H | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564241[14] | ECON 35091 | 51 J | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564246[15] | ECON 35090 | 51 J | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 01564238[16] | ECON 35097 | 51 d | af a1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 00947795[17] | ECON 35088 | 51 k | AF a 1 Afghanistan, first seed lot, first generation | |
| 00947796[3] | ECON 21510 | 66 B | AF a 1 Afghanistan, planted 5 May 1972 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00947915". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564235". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00947796". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564242". 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.
- ↑ Schultes, R.E.; Klein, W.M.; Plowman, T.; Lockwood, T.E. (1974). "Cannabis: an example of taxonomic neglect". Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University. 23: 337–367 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564247". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564237". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564244". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564243". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564245". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564239". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564240". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564241". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564246". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 01564238". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00947795". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 12 October 2026.