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Lophophora (/ l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə /) [citation needed] is a genus of spineless, button-like cacti. Its native range covers Texas through Mexico to southwestern Mexico. [ 1 ] The species are extremely slow growing, sometimes taking up to thirty years to reach flowering age (at the size of about a golf ball, excluding the root) in the wild.
The peyote (/ p eɪ ˈ oʊ t i /; Lophophora williamsii / l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə w ɪ l i ˈ æ m z i aɪ /) is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids, [2] particularly mescaline (see also: cactus alkaloids). [3] Peyote is a Spanish word derived from the Nahuatl peyōtl ([ˈpejoːt͡ɬ]), meaning "caterpillar cocoon ...
Many cacti are known to be psychoactive, containing phenethylamine alkaloids such as mescaline. [1] However, the two main ritualistic (folkloric) genera are Echinopsis, of which the most psychoactive species occur in the San Pedro cactus group (including Echinopsis pachanoi, syn. Trichocereus pachanoi, Echinopsis Peruviana, syn. Trichocereus peruvianus and Echinopsis lageniformis, syn ...
Lophophora diffusa, commonly known as false peyote, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae and one of the species in the Lophophora genus. It is endemic to Mexico in the outskirts of Querétaro . [ 4 ]
In the species Lophophora diffusa and Lophophora fricii, the primary alkaloid is pellotine, followed by anhalonidine in L. fricii and anhalamine in L. diffusa. In species outside the genus Lophophora , the content and variety of cactus alkaloids are significantly lower, but some contain compounds such as hordenine , N-methyltyramine , mescaline ...
Lophophora diffusa; E. Employment Division v. Smith; L. ... Peyonine; Peyote; W. Lophophora williamsii This page was last edited on 30 December 2016, at 13:31 ...
The government has excluded San Pedro Cactus (Echinopsis Pachanoi) and peyote (Lophophora Williamsii) from the list of illicit drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors. This is stated in the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers №408 dated May 23, 2012. [20]
Ariocarpus is a small genus of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Cactaceae.. It comes from limestone hills of Rio Grande in the south of Texas (Ariocarpus fissuratus) and also the north and the center of Mexico (all other species including A. fissuratus forms known as A. loydii and A. fissuratus var. intermedius) with strong sunshine exposures.