Indica (or indicum) means "of India", or "Indian", in Latin and is applied to things connected with India or South Asia: · The specific epithets indica and indicum are used in binomial nomenclature to indicate species (or subspecies) of plants, animals etc thought to originate in, or associated with, India. · Examples of such species are Mangifera indica (mango), Juniperus indica (black juniper), Azadirachta indica (neem), and Lagerstroemia indica (crape myrtle). · Indica is a long-grain variety of rice (Oryza sativa subsp. indica), as opposed to the short-grain Japonica (O. sativa subsp. japonica). · Another example of a botanic subspecies is Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (a type of marijuana, considered to be a separate species, Cannabis indica, by some