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I recently discovered australia has quite a few hallucinogenic plants that I'd never heard of, and I have searched high and low for all available ethnobotanicals. Any additions welcome. add them below.
From Erowid:
AUSTRALIAN IBOGAINE SHRUB
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Ervatamia
Species: orientalis
A shrub that grows from 2 to 6 meters tall with smooth leaves occuring
opposite to each other on the stem. The leaves are 10 to 22 cm long and
from 4 to 7 cm wide. The flowers are white with twisted petals and it
flowers from October to May. The fruits occur in pairs, are smooth, curved
3 sided banana like with an orange colour, with fruiting from February to
August. Its habitat is in coastal monsoon vine thickets, at the edge of
tropical rainforests, or on stabilised dunes in monsoon regions. It is
found across the top end from northern W.A. through to Cape York in
Queensland. It is also found in various parts of South East Asia.
Effects: Ibogaine is a hallucinogen. It is also used to treat heroin
and morphine addiction as it eliminates withdrawal symptons and in most
users it also eliminates further craving for heroin or morphine (High
Times, March 1992).
History: E. orientalis was originally described as Tabernanthe orientalis,
even after its reclassification it is still closely related to T. iboga,
a shrub native to Africa. There is no history of usage by the Australian
Aborigine but the related T. iboga plant in Africa is used as a
hallucinogen and is used to meet the plant god Bwiti and to communicate
with their ancestors. T. iboga also has stimulant properties and is used
to keep hunters awake.
Active Constituents: The leaves contain ibogaine and the related alkaloids
iboxygaine, voacristine, vobasine, dregamine, ervatamine and
19-dehydroervatamine.
-----
AGARA
Family: Himantandraceae
Genus: Galbulimima
Species: belgraveana
A large rainforest tree that grows up to 35 meters tall with leaves which
are glossy, metallic green above and brown beneath. The bark is scaly,
highly aromatic and is 1 cm in thichness. Flowers have two calyx lobes, no
petals and a large number of flattened stamens. It has red fleshy fruit
with a resinous scent. Found in Queensland and New Guinea, it is most
commonly found growing from 1200 to 2700 meters but can be found as low as
5 meters above sea level. It is only used by New Guineans who use it as a
pre battle hallucinogen, it was not used by the Australian Aborigine at all.
Usage: The bark was chewed and rubbed on the legs of tribal warriors.
Effects: Intoxication and hallucinations followed by extreme drowsiness.
Active Constituents: Twelve different alkaloids including himandrine,
himbacine, himgravine, himbosine and himbadine have been reported.
-----
GALANGAL
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Kaempferia
Species: galanga
A smooth stemless or short stemmed herb that grows to about 1.5 meters, its
round leaves grow to about 12 cm long and up to 12 cm wide. The leaves are
flat spreading. The flowers form a terminal spike and are white with deep
red veining. It grows in open grassy areas and is found from tropical
Africa through India to northern Queensland. The rhizome is rich in
essential oils and is highly aromatic.
Usage: Eat approx. 6 cm of the raw rhizome. Or take a tablespoon of
rhizome, cut small and add to a cup of boiling water. Then drink cold.
It is also used in Thai recipes such as Green Curry and Tom Yum.
Effects: Pleasant dreams and mild hallucinations.
History: Used by the natives of New Guinea in the Morobe & Fore regions as a
hallucinogen, as described in the movie The Valley, obscured by clouds (the
one with the Pink Floyd soundtrack). Used in the Philippines as a folk
medicine. Also used by Aleister Crowley as an incense in the Liber Samekh, a
ritual for 'communicating' with your 'holy guardian angel'.
------
Boletus luridus and B. erythropus of the Family Boletaceae, are some of the
porous fungi that are poorly studied. They stain blue when bruised. They
are regarded as poisonous and contain muscarine. This toadstool is possibly
hallucinogenic but as I don't know, anybody who has tested it please put
your results up on alt.drugs so we can confirm or deny this.
Apparently their eucalyptus trees are able to produce mescaline as well
EUCALYPTUS
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species: diversicolour (Karri)
obliqua (Messmate Stringybark)
regnans (Mountain Ash)
Mountain Ash is the tallest tree in Australia and grows up to 100m. It is
found in Tasmania in the Huon Valley and in Victoria in the Otways,
Dandenongs and Gippsland. E.obliqua grows up to 90m and is found across
southern Australia. Karri grows up to 90m and is found in the sw of WA.
FROM THE NET
From: anonymous
Subject: Mescaline from Gum Trees
----
Hi folks,
Whilst browsing chem abstracts yesterday I came across an intriguing
reference, especially for ozlanders. The Australian Dept of Defence
developed a technique for producing mescaline from eucalypt sawdust in
fairly high yield back in '64.
Here it is:
CA 61,8515
The preparation of mescaline from eucalypt lignin.
D. Amos, Dept. Supply, Defence Std Lab, Melbourne.
Australasian J. Pharm., 45, 529 (1964)
Dried Eucalyptus Regnans sawdust oxidised with nitrobenzene and alkali @
150C yielded 4% of syringaldehyde. Methylation @ 0-5C for 1hr with Me2SO4,
then heated at 70C for 1 hr gave 56% 3,4,5, trimethoxybenzaldehyde.
Converted to the cyanohydrin (ie +KCN+weak acid - jm) then reduced with
Pd black to mescaline. Overall yield 1% from dried sawdust. E. obliqua and
E. diversicolour both gave 0.7% yields.
So there you have it. Our army, or maybe ASIO, wanted a way to make vast
quantities of mescaline (we have lots and lots of E. regnans, and 1 kg
sawdust ~20 doses), very cheaply (all the ingredients are chemicals of
commerce, except Pd black, which is a recyclable catalyst), from local
precursors. Which is funny, since there would have been no difficulty
importing precursors or mescaline itself in experimental quantities. Maybe
they didn't want to be reliant on foreign suppliers, or maybe they didn't
want another country to be aware they were importing mescaline by the kilo.
It sounds like we might have had our very own MK-Ultra project running at
the height of the Cold War. It would be very interesting to follow this up.
Anyone out there know if we had some monkey business going on?
From Erowid:
AUSTRALIAN IBOGAINE SHRUB
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Ervatamia
Species: orientalis
A shrub that grows from 2 to 6 meters tall with smooth leaves occuring
opposite to each other on the stem. The leaves are 10 to 22 cm long and
from 4 to 7 cm wide. The flowers are white with twisted petals and it
flowers from October to May. The fruits occur in pairs, are smooth, curved
3 sided banana like with an orange colour, with fruiting from February to
August. Its habitat is in coastal monsoon vine thickets, at the edge of
tropical rainforests, or on stabilised dunes in monsoon regions. It is
found across the top end from northern W.A. through to Cape York in
Queensland. It is also found in various parts of South East Asia.
Effects: Ibogaine is a hallucinogen. It is also used to treat heroin
and morphine addiction as it eliminates withdrawal symptons and in most
users it also eliminates further craving for heroin or morphine (High
Times, March 1992).
History: E. orientalis was originally described as Tabernanthe orientalis,
even after its reclassification it is still closely related to T. iboga,
a shrub native to Africa. There is no history of usage by the Australian
Aborigine but the related T. iboga plant in Africa is used as a
hallucinogen and is used to meet the plant god Bwiti and to communicate
with their ancestors. T. iboga also has stimulant properties and is used
to keep hunters awake.
Active Constituents: The leaves contain ibogaine and the related alkaloids
iboxygaine, voacristine, vobasine, dregamine, ervatamine and
19-dehydroervatamine.
-----
AGARA
Family: Himantandraceae
Genus: Galbulimima
Species: belgraveana
A large rainforest tree that grows up to 35 meters tall with leaves which
are glossy, metallic green above and brown beneath. The bark is scaly,
highly aromatic and is 1 cm in thichness. Flowers have two calyx lobes, no
petals and a large number of flattened stamens. It has red fleshy fruit
with a resinous scent. Found in Queensland and New Guinea, it is most
commonly found growing from 1200 to 2700 meters but can be found as low as
5 meters above sea level. It is only used by New Guineans who use it as a
pre battle hallucinogen, it was not used by the Australian Aborigine at all.
Usage: The bark was chewed and rubbed on the legs of tribal warriors.
Effects: Intoxication and hallucinations followed by extreme drowsiness.
Active Constituents: Twelve different alkaloids including himandrine,
himbacine, himgravine, himbosine and himbadine have been reported.
-----
GALANGAL
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Kaempferia
Species: galanga
A smooth stemless or short stemmed herb that grows to about 1.5 meters, its
round leaves grow to about 12 cm long and up to 12 cm wide. The leaves are
flat spreading. The flowers form a terminal spike and are white with deep
red veining. It grows in open grassy areas and is found from tropical
Africa through India to northern Queensland. The rhizome is rich in
essential oils and is highly aromatic.
Usage: Eat approx. 6 cm of the raw rhizome. Or take a tablespoon of
rhizome, cut small and add to a cup of boiling water. Then drink cold.
It is also used in Thai recipes such as Green Curry and Tom Yum.
Effects: Pleasant dreams and mild hallucinations.
History: Used by the natives of New Guinea in the Morobe & Fore regions as a
hallucinogen, as described in the movie The Valley, obscured by clouds (the
one with the Pink Floyd soundtrack). Used in the Philippines as a folk
medicine. Also used by Aleister Crowley as an incense in the Liber Samekh, a
ritual for 'communicating' with your 'holy guardian angel'.
------
Boletus luridus and B. erythropus of the Family Boletaceae, are some of the
porous fungi that are poorly studied. They stain blue when bruised. They
are regarded as poisonous and contain muscarine. This toadstool is possibly
hallucinogenic but as I don't know, anybody who has tested it please put
your results up on alt.drugs so we can confirm or deny this.
Apparently their eucalyptus trees are able to produce mescaline as well
EUCALYPTUS
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species: diversicolour (Karri)
obliqua (Messmate Stringybark)
regnans (Mountain Ash)
Mountain Ash is the tallest tree in Australia and grows up to 100m. It is
found in Tasmania in the Huon Valley and in Victoria in the Otways,
Dandenongs and Gippsland. E.obliqua grows up to 90m and is found across
southern Australia. Karri grows up to 90m and is found in the sw of WA.
FROM THE NET
From: anonymous
Subject: Mescaline from Gum Trees
----
Hi folks,
Whilst browsing chem abstracts yesterday I came across an intriguing
reference, especially for ozlanders. The Australian Dept of Defence
developed a technique for producing mescaline from eucalypt sawdust in
fairly high yield back in '64.
Here it is:
CA 61,8515
The preparation of mescaline from eucalypt lignin.
D. Amos, Dept. Supply, Defence Std Lab, Melbourne.
Australasian J. Pharm., 45, 529 (1964)
Dried Eucalyptus Regnans sawdust oxidised with nitrobenzene and alkali @
150C yielded 4% of syringaldehyde. Methylation @ 0-5C for 1hr with Me2SO4,
then heated at 70C for 1 hr gave 56% 3,4,5, trimethoxybenzaldehyde.
Converted to the cyanohydrin (ie +KCN+weak acid - jm) then reduced with
Pd black to mescaline. Overall yield 1% from dried sawdust. E. obliqua and
E. diversicolour both gave 0.7% yields.
So there you have it. Our army, or maybe ASIO, wanted a way to make vast
quantities of mescaline (we have lots and lots of E. regnans, and 1 kg
sawdust ~20 doses), very cheaply (all the ingredients are chemicals of
commerce, except Pd black, which is a recyclable catalyst), from local
precursors. Which is funny, since there would have been no difficulty
importing precursors or mescaline itself in experimental quantities. Maybe
they didn't want to be reliant on foreign suppliers, or maybe they didn't
want another country to be aware they were importing mescaline by the kilo.
It sounds like we might have had our very own MK-Ultra project running at
the height of the Cold War. It would be very interesting to follow this up.
Anyone out there know if we had some monkey business going on?
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