Knowra Cannabaceae Cannabaceae Cannabaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes cannabis, hops, and hackberries. Its members range from herbaceous plants to woody trees and vines.
Cannabis : A genus of flowering plants that includes hemp and marijuana varieties. This genus gives the family its name and includes its most widely cultivated plants.
Angiosperm : A plant that produces seeds enclosed within an ovary, usually developing into a fruit. Cannabaceae belongs to the flowering plants, whose seeds develop inside fruits.
Hemp : Cannabis cultivated chiefly for fiber, seed, and other industrial products. Hemp is a major crop derived from the family’s Cannabis genus.
Moraceae : A flowering-plant family that includes figs, mulberries, and breadfruit. Moraceae is a fellow family in Rosales and a useful comparison for Cannabaceae.
Humulus : A genus of climbing plants that includes the hop species used in brewing. Hops are a close relative of cannabis within Cannabaceae.
Rosales : An order of flowering plants that includes roses, elms, nettles, and Cannabaceae. This order places the family among its closest broad taxonomic relatives.
Hops : The cone-like female inflorescences of Humulus lupulus, used to flavor and preserve beer. The family’s Humulus genus supplies the essential brewing crop.
Urticaceae : A flowering-plant family that includes nettles, pellitories, and many herbs. Urticaceae is another Rosales family whose membership has shifted with phylogenetic research.
Celtis : A genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries or nettle trees. Hackberries show that Cannabaceae also includes substantial woody trees.
Plant taxonomy : The science of naming, describing, and classifying plants. Taxonomic evidence determines which genera are grouped into Cannabaceae.
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