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Beschreibung Lophophora is a little genus of low-growing, spineless, Central American cacti. The best-known varieties is Lophophora williamsii typically called peyote. It happens in the Chihuahuan desert on the border of southern Texas as well as north Mexico, normally growing in desert scrub locations on sedimentary rock. These tiny plants are slow-moving growing, taking take thirty years prior to they initially blossom in the wild. In cultivation, plants have a tendency to blossom quicker as well as react well to being grafted. The pink or white flowers are followed by edible, pink fruit. The distinctive tufts of hairs are the resource of the name Lophophora which implies 'crest-bearing'. Peyote has a lengthy background of human use. The cactus has the psychoactive alkaloid mescaline. It has actually been used to stimulate altered states of awareness, perhaps for as long as 7,000 years. Commonly, the tops of plants are thoroughly removed, allowing the plant the opportunity to re-grow. These lophophora williamsii items are then dried and eaten. Ingestion brings about sensations of extreme nausea followed by hallucinations. Medicinal uses mescaline have been suggested for the therapy of alcohol addiction. In Native American societies there are several medicinal uses along with spiritual ones. In the USA peyote can be gathered and used for religious purposes. Lophophora williamsii is now classified as vulnerable with a lowering population. Lengthy made use of for spiritual and medicinal functions by indigenous peoples, Lophophora williamsii is famous for its psychoactive alkaloids, mostly mescaline, which are focused in the little, photosynthetic, above-ground portion of the stem. Experienced peyoteros harvest only the leading few millimeters of the stem, leaving the deeply recessed apical meristem, therefore enabling regrowth. The plants live for numerous years and also expand extremely slowly. Anhalonium, a later name for Ariocarpus, has been put on species of Lophophora, and was widely used in older pharmaceutical literature. Letzte Aktivitäten Verlinkungen |
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