Lophophora diffusa
Lophophora williamsii - Peyote

Lophophora (John M. Coulter, 1894) is a genus of spineless, button-like cacti native to the southwestern United States (Texas and New Mexico) through Northeast Mexico and South to Querétaro.

a coinage come highly slow growing, for instance ingesting as much as xxx years to email flowering age (at a size of just about a golf game ball, non including the root) in the untamed. Cultivated specimens develop well sooner, unremarkably ingesting between 3 to ten years to email from either seedling to matured flowering adult. Due to this slow incubation & above-harvesting by collectors, a coinage come considered to become within danger of extinction in the untamed.

Species
Lophophora has been reported to exist as comprised of all about from either 1 mintage, L. williamsii sustaining varieties, to the quaternity metal money L. diffusa, L. fricii, L. viridescens, & L. williamsii. Virtually all modern authorities assume Lophophora to become the genus of 2 coinage, L. diffusa and L. williamsii. Recent DNA sequencing studies (Butterworth et al. 2002) keep around shown that L. diffusa & L. williamsii indeed come distinct coinage. It would exist as interesting by using similar studies on the alleged metal money L. fricii & L. viridescens.

Beneath is given a key for the presently accepted mintage along by owning the "species" & varieties that must become considered synonymous. Elaborate arguments for this classification may be noticed inside Peyote: The Divine Cactus (Anderson 1996, pp. 210-219).

Lophophora diffusa (Croizat) Bravo 1967
A plants come yellow-green, unremarkably lacking easily-chiseled ribs & furrows. A podaria come rarely elevated, however are broad & flat. A tufts of hair are usually spread unevenly on the large podaria. A flowers come normally whitish to yellowish-white. L. diffusa occurs at a inside the south prevent of the range of the genus in Querétaro state, Mexico.

L. diffusa contains trace numbers of mescaline; pellotine is the principal alkaloid.

Synonyms
Lophophora echinata volt-ampere. diffusa Croizat 1944

Lophophora williamsii volt-ampere. diffusa (Croizat) Rowley 1979

Lophophora diffusa volt-ampere. koehresii Riha 1996, L. williamsii volt-ampere. koehresii (Riha) Grym 1997

Lophophora diffusa subsp. viridescens Halda 1997, L. viridescens (Halda) Halda 1997

Lophophora williamsii (Lemaire ex Salm-Dyck) J. M. Coulter
A plants come blue-green, commonly sustaining easily-chiseled ribs and furrows. A tufts of hair are usually equally spaced on the ribs. A flowers come pink or even seldom whitish. L. williamsii occurs around the to the full range of the genus except in Querétaro state, Mexico.

A mescaline content in dried L. williamsii might email 6%. Synonyms
Barrel cactus williamsii Lemaire ex Salm-Dyck 1845

Lophophora lewinii (K. Schumann) Rusby 1894

Lophophora echinata Croizat 1944

Lophophora fricii Habermann 1974, L. williamsii volt-ampere. fricii (Habermann) Grym 1997, L. diffusa subsp. fricii (Habermann) Halda 1997

Lophophora jourdaniana Habermann 1975

Ethnobotany and Entheogen Use
Lophophora williamsii, commonly referred to as peyote, is noted for its psychotropic alkaloids; understand peyote for further details.

These alkaloids come scatty or even lone incurred within super little numbers in the more mintage Lophophora diffusa. Patch L. diffusa is known for getting psychoactive effects, these effects come described non such when "visionary", such as peyote, but like the delirious high such as those associated by using a apply of Datura and Belladonna.

Etymology
Lophophora means "crest-bearing", on to the tufts of trichomes that adorn each tubercle. A title is from either them Greek words λοφος (lophos, the crest of the hill or even helmet) & φοÏ?εω (phoreo, to carry).