Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
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Lophophora williamsii
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Common name:
Peyote, Peyōtl
Family:
Cactaceae (Cactus)
Distribution:
Mexico, Southwestern U.S.
IUCN Red list:
Vulnerable
Life form:
Succulent plant
Comments:
Some Native American tribes use the plant for its curative, shamanic and psychoactive properties.
While working as a night watchman at a psychiatric ward, Ken Kesey was inspired to write his famous novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest under the influence of peyote: "'Peyote... inspired my chief narrator, because it was after choking down eight of the little cactus plants that I wrote the first three pages."
We earnestly request that you do not eat or harm our plants. We will prosecute theft or damage!
Links:
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Locations
1:
Arid House 1
• Accession: 1999-274/1 • Provenance: Unrecorded
2:
Arid House 1
• Accession: 1999-274/2 • Provenance: Unrecorded
3:
Arid House 1
• Accession: 2014-23/1 • Provenance: Unrecorded
4:
Arid House 1
• Accession: 2014-23/2 • Provenance: Unrecorded
5:
Seed Store
• Accession: 1999-274/4 • Provenance: Unrecorded
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Individual