Cannabis ruderalis

Cannabis ruderalis
Specimen in Brandenburg, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Cannabaceae
Genus: Cannabis
Species:
C. ruderalis
Binomial name
Cannabis ruderalis
Synonyms
  • Cannabis sativa var. spontanea
  • Cannabis sativa var. ruderalis

Cannabis ruderalis is a variety, subspecies, or species of Cannabis native to Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. It contains a relatively low quantity of psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and does not require photoperiod to blossom (unlike C. indica and C. sativa). Some scholars accept C. ruderalis as its own species due to its unique traits and phenotypes which distinguish it from C. indica and C. sativa; others debate whether ruderalis is a subspecies under C. sativa.[2]

  1. ^ Janischewsky, Dmitrij Erastovich (1924). Chiuevsky, I. A. (ed.). "A strain of cannabis in weedy areas of Southeastern Russia". Scientific Notes of Saratov University Named for N. G. Chernyshevsky – Faculty of Physico-Mathematical Pedagogy. II (2). Saratov, USSR: Saratov University Press: 3–17.
  2. ^ Resin, Harry (9 May 2014). "5 Differences Between Sativa and Indica". High Times. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.