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A South African name with an international history. Explore the distinction between regional roots and a particular breeder’s record.
Behind the name
Dutch Passion connects Durban Poison’s original seed material to South Africa in its overview of sativa varieties. Its separate discussion of landraces places African material within the background of its collection.
A regional origin tells one part of a variety’s story. The later history of a named selection is another: keeping both in view makes a profile more useful than treating a place name as a complete pedigree.
The Dutch Passion product record identifies its Durban Poison lineage as Durban crossed with an unknown indica. That detail belongs alongside the broader account of South African heritage.
We preserve the word unknown. Replacing it with a familiar parent would make the family tree look more complete while removing the uncertainty that the source itself retains.
A landrace account concerns regional genetic history; a breeder record identifies a particular line. Those descriptions operate at different levels and should not be silently substituted for one another.
For this profile, the practical reading is straightforward: the South African connection provides context, while the linked product record specifies the version described by Dutch Passion. It does not establish the pedigree of every same-named entry elsewhere.
Dutch Passion’s record includes regular and feminised seed categories under the Durban Poison name. These labels describe categories within that record rather than two new geographical origins.
When following a reference, keep the cultivar name, the contributor and the category together. That is especially helpful when a shorter caption shows only the familiar strain name.
Durban Poison and Afghan Kush offer different examples of geographical language in strain history. Our Afghan Kush profile explores the distinction between a regional reference and a named variety.
Read their source accounts side by side to compare how each history is documented. A shared use of place names does not imply a shared pedigree.
Durban Poison FAQ
The cited breeder account connects the original material to South Africa.
That is how the linked Dutch Passion lineage is recorded. We retain the source’s uncertainty rather than guessing a name.
No. A place of origin and the parentage of a particular line are different kinds of information.
This profile attributes its specific lineage record to Dutch Passion. Another contributor’s same-named material needs its own documentation.
A genuine Durban Poison reference photograph with an identified source and permission for website use.
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