Cannabis is an annual herbaceous flowering plant first classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753; its specific epithet sativa means cultivated. Indigenous to Eastern Asia, it is now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation, and it has been used throughout recorded history as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food and medicine, as well as a recreational drug and for religious and spiritual purposes.
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DietPhotosynthetic Autotroph 1 System (Realm) Relationship to People Relationship to PeopleFarmed or Commercially Raised 3 Relationship to PeopleUsed in Traditional Medicine 3 Living or Extinct Scientific Name Connections
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Rosales, Taxa Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Cannabis sativa
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1. Cannabis sativa (Wikipedia)
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Cannabis sativa
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Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant.
View the Source2. Plants For A Future: Cannabis sativa
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Fluvial deposits on crags and stony slopes ... It is occasionally found as a casual on waste ground in Britain ... It is especially found as a weed of nitrogen-rich soils near human habitations
3. Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) (Wikipedia)
- present tense, cosmopolitan distribution
- The specific epithet sativa means 'cultivated'...cultivated throughout recorded history
- used as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, and medicine
- cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation
View the SourcePlant (Wikipedia)
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They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Cannabis sativa
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyChild Taxon Of: Rosales, Taxon recordQuote, Child Taxon Of: Rosales, Taxon record
"order": "Rosales"
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