KromerWillian

KromerWillian

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18. August 1971

lophophora williamsii

lophophora williamsii

Germany

20.07.2022

Lophophora is a tiny genus of low-growing, spineless, Central American cacti. The best-known species is Lophophora williamsii frequently called peyote. It occurs in the Chihuahuan desert on the border of southerly Texas as well as northern Mexico, normally growing in desert scrub locations on limestone. These small plants are slow-moving growing, taking take thirty years prior to they initially flower in the wild. In cultivation, plants tend to blossom faster as well as respond well to being grafted. The pink or white flowers are complied with by edible, pink fruit. The distinctive tufts of hairs are the resource of the name Lophophora which indicates 'crest-bearing'. Peyote has a lengthy history of human usage. The cactus contains the psychedelic alkaloid mescaline. It has actually been made use of to engender modified states of awareness, perhaps for as long as 7,000 years. Commonly, the tops of plants are thoroughly cut off, enabling the plant the possibility to re-grow. These lophophora williamsii items are after that dried as well as eaten. Ingestion results in sensations of severe queasiness complied with by hallucinations. Medicinal uses mescaline have been recommended for the treatment of alcohol addiction. In Native American cultures there are many medicinal uses along with spiritual ones. In the USA peyote can be harvested as well as used for religious functions. Lophophora williamsii is currently classified as susceptible with a lowering population. Long made use of for medicinal as well as spiritual functions by native peoples, Lophophora williamsii is famous for its psychoactive alkaloids, primarily mescaline, which are focused in the tiny, photosynthetic, above-ground portion of the stem. Experienced peyoteros harvest only the leading couple of millimeters of the stem, leaving the deeply recessed apical meristem, thus permitting regrowth. The plants live for numerous decades and expand extremely gradually. Anhalonium, a later name for Ariocarpus, has actually been put on species of Lophophora, as well as was widely used in older pharmaceutical literary works.

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