Cannabis sativa L.

Flowering & Fruiting: August-March

Annual shrubs, ca. 0.5-2.0 m high, strong smelling; Branchlets densely white pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, palmately 3-9 (-11) foliolate; stipules ca. 3-5 x 1-2 mm, lanceolate, acuminate; petiole 2-12 cm long, pubescent, hairs white, appresed; lamina ca. 1.5-12 x 0.4-2.0 cm long, narrowed towards base, long acuminate towards apex, coarsely serrate, scabrid above, adpressed pubescent with sessile glands beneath. Flowers dioecious, greenish; Male flowers ca. 2-2 cm long pendent panicles; bracts linear, ca. 3-5 mm; perianth-lobes oblong, ca. 3 x 1 mm; Female flowers crowded under leafy convolute bracts; bracts orbicular, ca. 4mm across, brown. Achene ca. 3-4 mm in diameter, shining, yellowish brown, minutely pilose to glabrous, ovate. Seed only with fleshy unilateral endosperm.

A herb with woody base. Leaves 3-5 foliate, leaflets narrow elliptic, serrate, hairy with aromatic smell when bruished. Flowers in dense terminal racemes. Leaves contain nicotine. the plant is cultivated, though prohibited, and also run wild

Notes: Plains to High Altitude, Cultivated, Native of China

Waste places, undergrowth in orchards, gardens, forested areas

Throughout Assam

It is a common fumitory; young leaves along with tender shoots are sometimes eaten as vegetable mixing with others, gives a narcotic effect, not to be given to children.

Flowering tops used for sedative, analgestic and narcotic purposes. Smoked or drunk as intoxicant, but higher doses may be fatal.