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The name comes from a traditional Thai method of preparing cannabis to be smoked, which involved wrapping cannabis bud around a stick. [90] The stick was either bamboo or a hemp stalk, the bud may have been treated with hash oil before wrapping and would have been wrapped around the stick with fan leaves and/or silk string.
At a very early period the Chinese recognized the Cannabis plant as dioecious", [20] and the (c. 3rd century BCE) Erya dictionary defined xi 枲 "male Cannabis" and fu 莩 (or ju 苴) "female Cannabis". [21] Male flowers are normally borne on loose panicles, and female flowers are borne on racemes. [22]
Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family.As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp), Humulus and Celtis (hackberries).
Pot, a common slang name for cannabis, on a sign at a 2012 cannabis rights demonstration in New York City. More than 1,200 slang names have been identified for the dried leaves and flowers harvested from the cannabis plant for drug use. [1] This list is not exhaustive; it includes well-attested expressions.
The flowers are solitary or in clusters and grow in the axils of the leaves, on long pedicels up to 10 centimetres (3.9 in) or on long peduncles up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in). They are usually pink or reddish-purple and heart-shaped, 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in) wide and 13–15 millimetres (0.51–0.59 in) long, with purple-red stamens .
Principal growth stage 1: Leaf development (main shoot) 10: G, M: First true leaf emerged from coleoptile D: Cotyledons completely unfolded P: First leaves separated 11: First true leaf, leaf pair or whorl unfolded P: First leaves unfolded 12: 2 true leaves, leaf pairs or whorls unfolded 13: 3 true leaves, leaf pairs or whorls unfolded 1 .
A slang name for a cannabis consumer. [10] tea party Slang name for a cannabis get-together. [3] [10] [See cannabis consumption.] terpenes Organic compounds in the essential oils produced in cannabis trichomes that give the buds their fragrance. [62] tetrahydrocannabinol or THC A psychoactive substance found in cannabis, abbreviated THC. [See ...
The flowers of Cannabis sativa plants are most often either male or female, but, only plants displaying female pistils can be or turn hermaphrodite. Males can never become hermaphrodites. [ 3 ] It is a short-day flowering plant, with staminate (male) plants usually taller and less robust than pistillate (female or male) plants.