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Leo's plants look exactly like the rhombifolia ones I grew from SAB seed:) leaf shape and colour may vary greatly depending on soil, humidity, etc

my guess is this plant belongs to Malvaceae, mallow family, like this common mallow:

hi Tripitaka, In my country this plant is rather popular both in folk and official medicine. Its common Russian name may be translated as "nine powers". When I was a kid, I often had bronchitis, and when I had it, I always had to drink a decoction of "Rhizoma et Radix Inulae". I drank gallons of this astringent bitter brown liquid. It seemed to work, using it you cough less and you easily get rid of phlegm in your lungs. There is also one quite unexpected bonus to it - I don't mind drinking bitter brews since then

Evil Genius, the flowers look gorgeous. How large they are? The flowers of J. pectoralis are nice but almost too small to notice.

I suppose there may be some natural variation in the shape of leaves and flowers in this species. There are pics of commoner narrow-leaf plants like this: and specimens with shorter/broader leaves like mine or this one: or this one from Israel: What about the plants with black centered flowers, like the apothecary's? There is a species, Turnera subulata, that always has flowers of that type, while most of ulmifolias are just yellow

here's a pic (somewhat blurry, sorry) hellofromthegutter, I don't have any seed at hand ATM, but I'll start collecting it, and then - welcome for a trade:)

most of them haven't flowered yet. They are way slower than cuttings. thanks for the tip, I'll look for any variations. BTW, it is of some other variety than apothecary's, the flowers are pure yellow. It has a strange smell when fresh, like crushed tomato leaves.

They popped up not only in the motherplant's pot, but in all other pots near it (with San Pedro & other plants). Definitely not suckers. I've also grown some from the seed that I collected by chance. Sometimes a seed or two stays in the open seed capsule, but others are thrown all about when the capsule bursts, and soon after that it drops off itself. If the plants are outside, the wind will do that even faster. Check the leaves just below the flowers, you may find some unripe seed pods and bag them before they burst.

I have many seedlings all from a single plant (indoors, no bees:)), so it is self-fertile. It is not easy to gather any seed because the seed pods are always either unripe or already empty. But then you end up with seedlings all around. I smoked dried leaves once and got a nice mellow intoxicating effect that lasted an hour or so.

I have an old source ("Herbs of Tadjikistan", 1989) that states that E. intermedia fresh herb contains around 0.5-3.1% alkaloids, 70-95% of which is pseudoephedrine.

Wasn't it supposed to be a tryptamine source as well? If I remember correctly, Ott mentioned it in "Aya Analogues"

have list: approx. 100 seeds of Corydalis sp. harvested June 2005 (not sure which species it is, most likely it's C. solida a.k.a. C. halleri) plenty of fresh Mestoklema macrorhiza seed I am looking for seed of: Nymphaea caerulea, or Leonotis leonurus, or other interesting mesembs

that report was by late D.M.Turner:"DMT ~ WATER SPIRIT A MAGICAL LINK"

these are of "red" strain (sorry for crappy image) they are two feet long now:)