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Brassidium sp.
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Cannabis Taxonomy
• Order: Rosales
• Family: Cannabaceae
• Genus: Cannabis
The genus Cannabis contains three species; C. sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis.
C. sativa is thought to be originally native to Central Asia.
It is a dioecious herb (produces separate male and female plants), and the plants tend to be 1-3 meters tall. The psychoactive chemical THC is present in most parts of the plant, but it is most highly concentrated in the sticky resin produced by glands at the base of trichomes that cover the leaves and bracts of the female flower head. These trichomes constitute the main ingredients in hashish. -
Cannabis

It is one of the oldest cultivated plants, having been found in the earliest strata of many Eurasian habitation sites. This plant has a long history of use in folk medicine and apart from the components that may have medicinal value it also contains psychoactive compounds. The main psychoactive compound is tetrahydrocannabinol, that causes a state of relaxation, and euphoria.
Other effects include a facility for introspection and philosophical thinking, as well as mild anxiety or paranoia. -

A woodcut illustration of cannabis from the 1517 edition of the European herbal Ortus sanitatis de herbis et plantis.
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n448_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy) and Pulmonaria virginica now called Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebell)
The new botanic garden
London,J. Stockdale,1812.
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Distribution of Hallucinogens
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Species Plantarum; 1753

Carolus Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné, a Swedish naturalist-physician, offered the first comprehensive and scientific system of classification and nomenclature for plants in his book Species Plantarum, published in 1753.
He made the use of binomial nomenclature the norm for botanical and zoological taxonomy. Although other botanists had used binomials, Linnaeus was the first to employ the system consistently.
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In all things there is a poison, and there is nothing without a poison. It depends only upon the dose whether something is poison or not
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Papaver somniferum
(Papaveraceae)CHAUMETON, F.; POIRET, J. L. M.; CHAMBERET DE TYRBAS, J. B. J. A. C. FLORE MÉDICALE.
Posted on October 22, 2011 with 4 notes
Source: beckerexhibits.wustl.edu
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Myrciaria cauliflora
Known as Jabuticaba. Native to Southern Brazil.
The fruit of this tree grow directly from its trunk.
Looks so delicious. :DIt also seems to have as many as 17 anti-cancer compounds, including a unique one called jaboticabin.
Posted on October 21, 2011 with 4 notes
Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov



