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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:)

I too have several plants of "Ringworm" clone, and they (still) don't have any espinas either.p.s. Just checked my plants and found that some of hawaiian viridis plants have grown their espinas at last! (it's their 4th year). Still only the largest leaves have them.

There's an old recipe for Turkey Red dyeMix 10g ammonium chloride and 10g sodium nitrate to a litre of 40% alcohol solution (vodka) then add one volume of rue seed to five volumes of above mix and keep it extracting in a sealed vial for 6 months then filter and evaporate just 10g of this dye is enough to dye 5 sq. meters of silk deep purple, or 50 m pink. and no, you don't need any mordant with this if you are going to dye silk or wool (or skin) p.s. aren't the reds in rue some other chems not related to harmine/harmaline?

Hey, you've got a nice hairy seedling labelled "Coffea arabica" on page 47 looks very much like melissa, IMHO, or probably some other Labiatae, but definitely not a coffee plant:)

what's wrong? This is a Mestoklema macrorhizum plant grown from B&T seed. The species is easy to grow and clone and the plantlets always have plenty of flower buds (1), but none of them ever develop any petals. When they grow old, they just turn into seed capsules, like the one on the left (2). Is it normal for some of the mesembs just as it is normal for camomiles, or maybe something is wrong with light or nutrients? They are under fluoros 12/12, planted in commercial cacti mix with some coarse sharp sand mixed in. p.s. a Delosperma esterhuyseniae grown at the same conditions has fully developed flowers.

Thanks devance, the seed pods on my M.m are with seeds that look more or less normal (light brown). Haven't checked its viability though. I'll try to give them more natural light. I'd like to see full-petalled flowers some day - out of pure aesthetics:)

what about persimmon, Diospiros kaki? it is dioecious, and often has fruit with undeveloped/unviable seed I'm not sure though if it is due to lack of fertilization or to other reasons

Apothecary, it seems I know what your plant is:) It's a boxelder, Acer negundo. A very common weed tree now growing almost everywhere on Earth.

Torsten, could you please elaborate on the method of administration of fresh leaves in the report you mention above? was it a quid?

thanks a lot for the info, AuxinI guess that's what was wrong with my gnome's Anadenanthera A/B extractions... just too much NaOH

True for non-succulent plants, but not for cacti. They can afford it, having that much water inside.A fat pachanoi cutting put on a dry shelf would eventually start to form roots out of the bottom part (the one that gets less light, hence, more auxins). The same thing happens to the tops of the plants I grow under fluoros. So do you think it's just overheating and not light intensity? Then maybe adjusting a fan blowing over the tops would help?