Lophophora williamsii (Peyote) SEEDS

 You are buying Lophophora williamsii seeds @ R6 per seed

These are FRESH and Viable seeds, harvested in April 2015

Lophophora williamsii or peyote is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline.^[2] The English common name peyote comes from the like-spelled Spanish name, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl name peyōtl, said to be derived from a root meaning "glisten" or "glistening". Native North Americans are likely to have used peyote, often for spiritual purposes, for at least 5,500 years.

Peyote is native to southwestern Texas and Mexico. It is found primarily in the Chihuahuan desert and in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi among scrub, especially where there is limestone.

Known for its psychoactive properties when ingested, peyote is used worldwide as an entheogen and supplement to various transcendence practices, including meditation, psychonautics, and psychedelic psychotherapy. Peyote has a long history of ritualistic and medicinal use by indigenous Americans. It flowers from March through May, and sometimes as late as September. The flowers are pink, with thigmotactic anthers (like Opuntia).

In addition to psychoactive use, some Native American tribes use the plant for its curative properties. They employ peyote to treat such varied ailments as toothache, pain in childbirth, fever, breast pain, skin diseases, rheumatism, diabetes, colds, and blindness.T he US Dispensatory lists peyote under the name Anhalonium, and states it can be used in various preparations for neurasthenia, hysteria and asthma. Peyote also contains an alkaloid which was given the name peyocactin. It is now called hordenine.

Grafting to Pereskiopsis spathulata dramatically increases the growth rate of L. williamsii. It takes an ungrafted seedling 30 months to grow 34mm (Top). When grafted, it takes only 3 months to grow 32mm (below).