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Cannabis indica
I occasionally run across cannabis as a "wild" plant, especially where it was once cultivated for rope, but this doesn't look to be a standard Cannabis sativa hemp plant. I'm guessing it's C. indica just from its general robustness. It's just growing from a typical weedy patch of ground so I kind of doubt it was "cultivated".
Spotted on Jun 29, 2011
Submitted on Jun 29, 2011
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Thanks for that fern spotting Emma. I like plants that bud off small versions of themselves. It's an interesting way of reproducing.
interesting. The picture is great too.
Here is an interesting spotting of an edible fern from Australia,spotted by Leuba
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/115...
i thought you might find this of interest since you have a mission on ferns.
I was thinking that C. sativa was the one grown for drugs, but when I looked up C.indica this is what I found:
Broad-leafed Cannabis indica plants in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan are traditionally cultivated for the production of hashish. Pharmacologically, indica landraces tend to have a higher cannabidiol (CBD) content than sativa strains.[
Interesting.
I lived in an area of Massachusetts where hemp had been grown for fiber many years ago and I'd find 1 or 2 plants by the roadside every year. This plant is pretty obviously the result of a local college student throwing away some seeds or something like that.
Yes, it looks very healthy. Was there a lot of hemp growing in your area?