Squirrel Tail #2 - Mae Chaem Strain

Due to prohibition, a lack of evidence, an abundance of ethnic, regional and national pride - the origins of Squirrel Tail are disputed. Squirrel Tail is rendered as “หางกระรอก” in Thai and “ຫາງກະຮອກ” in Laotian and it is perhaps the most well known of all Thai Landraces. The phrase Squirrel Tail itself is first attested in history as a word for a squirrel tail like pattern in traditional Khit weaving, a Lao-Isan traditional artisanal art form. Lao speakers in Isan and Laos use the term to describe specific plant morphologies contrasted with those associated with other animals, namely Tiger Tail, Snake Teeth and Erawan. Squirrel Tail then would refer to plants with big dense bushy colas. Over time plants showing these characteristics will have been selected for with various degrees of intensity from the diverse region specific genepools which bear those names. Squirrel Tail then might be best understood as an archetype/phenotype within the larger Cannabis genepool of Thailand/Laos, specifically Isan/Laos. Complicating things, autochtonous NLD type landrace cannabis, allochtonous NLD types originally from the Lao/Isan genepool, Government and university bred genetics and a whole hos