Vepris ampody..?

[Chiral]

Vepris ampody..anyone know of any pics of this plant and its status here in OZ..is anyone growing it or have seed etc.

H.

[t st tantra]

i know of a few plants from another vepris species..........these plant are from the citrus family and contain other alkaloids which seem too sus to consume without more knowledge.

Vepris ampody H. Perr.

0.224% DMT was reported in the leaf. It was accompanied by kokusagine, dimethoxy-2,4-methyl-10-acridone, evoxanthine and phenacetamide.

Kan-Fan et al. 1970

[The first of the additional compounds seems to lack any pharmacological or toxicological evaluation; the second may be antagonistic to Ditran.]

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online...ure_other.shtml

[Statakak]

Vepris ampody

Is native to and possibly endemic to Madagascar and has be used traditionally to treat malaria. There seems to be some confusion about the name and distribution.

This link shows the alkaloids present;

http://www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/2006/papers/P_117.pdf

Allegedly contains up to 0.22% DMT

Web programs tend to translate this from French (I think) to;

Vepris uguenensis (Engl.)

The distribution of this tree is known from three records in the “Global Biodiversity Information Facility” database on the Kenya Tanzania border.

http://data.gbif.org/species/15830931/

Pictures of pressed botanical samples can be found on a search for Vepris ampody on;

http://www.aluka.org/action/doSearch?sa=4&...p;submit=Search

Some people think it is this tree;

http://www.plantzafrica.com/planttuv/veprislan.htm

But this one looks more like the pressed botanical samples above;

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flo...taxon_id=134469

This species (Vepris uguenensis ) is on the “my Garden” web site (looks like you have to log-on to see any info on it.

http://www.mygarden.net.au/

Wow that’s one cryptic species.

So my guess is that this plant is a very rare plant which exists in very limited distribution in this remote aria the world and has very published material on studies of this species and the published material is mostly in French.

Sorry this info is probably more confusing than helpfull.

[Chiral]

Well you found a bit more than I did..well done, but yeah very little know it seems and even just to confirm the species with pics and data is a chore. Seems its worth tracking it down and continuing the hunt for this one.

anyone goin to Madagascar soon...?

H.

[Chiral]

i know of a few plants from another vepris species..........these plant are from the citrus family and contain other alkaloids which seem too sus to consume without more knowledge.

Vepris ampody H. Perr.

0.224% DMT was reported in the leaf. It was accompanied by kokusagine, dimethoxy-2,4-methyl-10-acridone, evoxanthine and phenacetamide.

Kan-Fan et al. 1970

[The first of the additional compounds seems to lack any pharmacological or toxicological evaluation; the second may be antagonistic to Ditran.]

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online...ure_other.shtml

I believe kokusagine is one of the mystery alkaloids in MH responsible for oral activity of said root.

this link takes it somewhere..

http://forums.mycotopia.net/botanicals-cac...-root-bark.html

H.

[Mycot]

Thought to revive this thread as there is little accurate data on this species. Additionally this species doesn't appear to be available outside of Madagascar yet.

Two interesting links I have found are Here and Here.

The second link is particularly interesting as it links to 12 collections of this species along with location data.

Click on the individual collection numbers and even further details are given.

Following are some pages giving description of the species(in french) and a herbarium specimen the original image of which can be found through the above link is huge in size showing fine vein structures.

Edited May 6, 2011 by Mycot