Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family. As it is now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped into about 11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp), Humulus (hops) and Celtis (clams). Celtis is by far the largest genus, with about 100 species. Hemp and marijuana are like cousins: they're related but they're different.
Both belong to the same plant family, called Cannabaceae, but they are unique varieties. Cannabaceae (hemp family) are a family of plants.
Hemp and marijuana plants
are of the same species. According to ITIS, cannabis is a member of the small plant family Cannabaceae, which belongs to the order of roses (Rosales).This means that if we expand the classification of relatives of cannabis to their order, our favorite herb would be related to strawberries, blackberries, apples, pears, plums, peaches, almonds, figs, blackberries and, of course, roses. All of these fruits and botanical species belong to the rose family, making them distant cousins of the cannabis plant. Others are grown for medical or recreational use such as dried flowers, extracts, or infused food products. Classification systems developed before the 1990s, such as those of Cronquist (198) and Dahlgren (198), generally recognized the order Urticales, which included the families Cannabaceae, Cecropiaceae, Celtidaceae, Moraceae, Ulmaceae and Urticaceae, as they were then circumscribed. The hemp plant develops much thicker fibers throughout its stem that can be processed into a wide variety of resources, including but not limited to textiles, cords, paper, concrete, fuel and food.
The cannabis plant has a long history intertwined with that of human beings; it was one of the most valuable plant resources for the industrialization effort providing medicines, clothing, industrial cords, food and more.
