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Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
Medicinal Avoid Comments Bashful mimosa: Mimosa pudica: Ground cover for tomatoes, peppers: predatory beetles: Used as a natural ground cover in agriculture Caper spurge: Euphorbia lathyris: Moles: Used in French folk medicine as an emetic and purgative [1] Many domesticated animals can eat it, although it is poisonous to humans. [1] Primarily ...
Mimosa tenuiflora, syn. Mimosa hostilis, also known as jurema preta, calumbi (Brazil), tepezcohuite (México), carbonal, cabrera, jurema, black jurema, and binho de jurema, is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas), and the following ...
Anadenanthera colubrina produces beans used for cebil Areca palms in Ponda, India. Other plants: Mimosa hostilis: DMT; Chacruna: DMT, NMT; Cebil and Yopo: DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin; Mucuna pruriens; Morning glory species, notably Hawaiian Baby Woodrose: lysergic acid amide; Sinicuichi: Vertine, Lyfoline, Lythrine and other sinicuichi alkaloids
Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for medicinal, religious, and/or recreational purposes. Some have been used ritually as entheogens for millennia. [1] [2] The plants are listed according to the specific psychoactive chemical substances they contain; many contain multiple known psychoactive compounds.
Viburnum lesquereuxii leaf with insect damage; Dakota Sandstone (Cretaceous) of Ellsworth County, Kansas. Scale bar is 10 mm. Knowledge of herbivory in geological time comes from three sources: fossilized plants, which may preserve evidence of defense (such as spines) or herbivory-related damage; the observation of plant debris in fossilised animal feces; and the structure of herbivore mouthparts.
A cat eating grass – an example of zoopharmacognosy. Zoopharmacognosy is a behaviour in which non-human animals self-medicate by selecting and ingesting or topically applying plants, soils and insects with medicinal properties, to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens, toxins, and even other animals.
Unfortunately, this increased demand and use of the toads as a source of 5-MeO-DMT has put strain on their populations. [49] Concerned with the ecological impacts of the growing use of I. alvarius secretions as a source of 5-MeO-DMT, Ken Nelson would later advocate for the use of synthetic 5-MeO-DMT and conservation of the Colorado River Toad. [50]