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Anadenanthera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Anadenanthera
Species

See text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Fabaceae (legumes) Quillajaceae Polygalaceae (milkwort family) Surianaceae The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The name Fabaceae belongs to either of two families, depending on viewpoint. ...

Anadenanthera is a genus of South American trees in the Legume family, Leguminosae or Fabaceae. The genus contains two (to four) species, A. colubrina and A. peregrina. These trees are known to the western world primarily as sources of the hallucinogenic snuffs Vilca/Cebil and Yopo/Cohoba. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Varieties of soybean seeds, a popular legume A flowering legume (Lupin) The term legume has two closely related meanings in botany, a situation encountered with many botanical common names of useful plants whereby an applied name can refer to either the plant itself, or to the edible fruit (or useful... Binomial name Anadenanthera colubrina Vilca (Anadenanthera colubrina), also known as cebil, is a South American tree closely related to Yopo, or . ... Binomial name Anadenanthera peregrina Yopo, Anadenanthera peregrina, (also known as Cohoba, Nopo, Ñopo), is a native South American tree as well as an entheogen used in healing and rituals. ... Hallucinogenic drugs or hallucinogens are drugs that can alter sensory perceptions, elicit alternate states of consciousness, or cause hallucinations. ... Binomial name Anadenanthera colubrina Vilca (Anadenanthera colubrina), also known as cebil, is a South American tree closely related to the Yopo, , as well as the entheogenic snuff made from the seeds of the tree. ... Binomial name Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell. ... Binomial name Anadenanthera peregrina Yopo, Anadenanthera peregrina, (also known as Cohoba, Nopo, Ñopo), is a native South American tree as well as an entheogen used in healing and rituals. ... Cohoba is an old Spanish transliteration (then h was not mute as in modern Spanish, today j is used for the h sound) for ceremony in which narcotic ground seed of the cojóbana tree; was smoked in twin nasal Y-shaped pipes also called Cohoba [[1]]. The cojóbana...


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This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Richard Evans Schultes (January 12, 1915–April 10, 2001) was a Harvard ethnobotanist, famed for his work in entheogenic and hallucinogenic drugs. ...

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3 oz Whole, Freshly Dried Anadenanthera Colubrina Seed Pods (158 words)
Anadenanthera colubrina (Yopi, Yopo, Cohoba, Vilca, Yupa, Cebil), a rare species that has been held as entheogenic for many centuries.
Archaeological remains of Anadenanthera colubrina have been found all throuhout South America and the West Indies.
Black beans from Anadenanthera colubrina trees were toasted, pulverized and mixed with ashes or calcined shells to make psychedelic snuff called yopo by Indians in Orinoco basin in Colombia, Venezuela and possibly in southern part of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Anadenanthera colubrina (Cebil), a rare species that has been held as entheogenic for many centuries.
Their influence on art and culture and the uncanny resemblance in chemistry between that of plant and mammal must be explored.
The use of Anadenanthera derived snuff contributes to the construction of belief systems.
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