Isa kava

Madang, Papua New Guinea. Legal class: unclassified, per Lebot et al. 1999 HPLC, in Johnston & Rogers, Hawaiian 'Awa.

Chemotype

• 246531 — Lebot et al. 1999 HPLC, in Johnston & Rogers, Hawaiian 'Awa

What has been published

• Lebot et al. 1999 found Isa the most genetically distant of all accessions studied. Later DNA work indicates it is neither noble nor two-day but a separate lineage — Lebot et al. 1999 HPLC, in Johnston & Rogers, Hawaiian 'Awa

Not a noble cultivar. Sold widely as Isa or Koniak, and often blended to raise potency.