Heavenly blue

Plate 1. Ethnobotany and Background. Convolvulaceae, the botanical name for the morning glory family, derives from the Latin convolve, referring to its growth of intertwining vines (A Heavenly blue, Ipomoea tricolor). The purgative properties of the Mexican roots were readily accepted in Europe when introduced in the sixteenth century, since pre-Christian folk tradition had already proclaimed the virtues of skammonia as found in Dioscorides work De Materia Medica, ca. 50-68 a.d. 

Two trisaccharide macrolactones have been characterized from the aerial parts of Ipomoea tricolor Cav. (syn. Ipomoea violacea L.) (heavenly blue), namely, tricolorins... 

Kondo, T. et al.. Heavenly blue anthocyanin. IV. Structure determination of heavenly blue anthocyanin, a complex monomeric anthocyanin from the morning glory Ipomoea tricolor, by means of the negative NOE method. Tetrahedron Lett., 28, 2273, 1987. 

STREET NAMES Rooties, tranks, downers, benzos, goof-balls, Mexican, roach, heavenly blues, valo, stupefy, date rape, anxiety... 

Material Seeds and to a lesser extent all other parts of plant except roots. Strongest varieties are Heavenly Blue, Pearly Gates, Flying Saucers, Wedding Bells, Blue Star, Summer Skies, and Badoh Begro (Mexican variety). 

An American psychedelic morning glory (Ipomoea violaceaj. This species includes plants popularly known as "Heavenly Blue, "Pearly Gates, "Wedding Bells, "Summer Skies and "Blue Star —all of which contain LSD-like compounds. 

Not all the varieties of morning-glories available from seed companies are psyclioactive. Of those that are, the best known are Heavenly Blue (with large blue flowers). Pearly Gates (white), Wedding Bells (pink), and Flying Saucers (blue with white stripes). 

DNA deoxyribonucleic acid GABA gamma amino butyric acid HBA heavenly blue anthocyanidin i.v. intra venous... 

Synonyms Ipomoea violacea Ipomoea tricolor-, Pearly gates Wedding bells Heavenly blue Blue star... 

Ipomoea violacea. "Morningglories" conic in many varieties, including "Heavenly Blue (shown), "Flying Saucers," "Pearly Gates" and "WeddingBells."... 

Heavenly Blue Pearly Gates Flying Saucers Wedding Bells Summer Skies Blue Star... 

During their flame spectrometry experiments on mineral waters in 1860, the German chemists Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen determined the existence of cesium from the characteristic two blue lines in the spectrum. Likewise, extracts of the mineral lepidolite exhibited two dark red spectral lines from which the presence of Rb was inferred. Thus, cesium derives from the Latin caesius, meaning heavenly blue, whereas rubidium derives from rubidus, the Latin word used to describe a very dark red color. Bunsen was able to isolate pure Rb but not Cs, later purified by C. Setterberg. 

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