☛ Official ☚ [LSA's Subthread] Extraction of LSA's

[Xorkoth]

The leaves and stems of a plant do not necessarily contain the same alkaloids. Generally the chemical makeup of different parts of the same plant vary in content. Maybe morning glories do, I don't know, but I wouldn't assume so.

 

[Pfafffed]

^ This.

Even if the same alkaloids are present, they may be found in different ratios

 

[polymath]

Yeah, the Polish article claimed that the ratio of ergine to ergometrine was between 3:1 and 6:1 in the seeds, and something like 15:1 in the leaves and stems.

Identification and determination of ergot alkaloids in Morning Glory cultivars

Seeds of plants from Ipomoea genera contain numerous ergot alkaloids, including psychoactive ergine and ergometrine, and are often abused as so-called “legal highs.” In this work, an analytical method for determination of ergine and ergometrine, ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The glaucium flavum poppy plant, containing the alkaloid glaucine which has recently been identified as a 5-HT2A hallucinogen, has a much higher amount of some convulsant toxin in the roots and a high concentration of the glaucine in the stem, flowers and pods. That's one example about the alkaloid ratios varying between different parts of certain plants.