Morning glories

LSD derivatives contained in plants (e.g., morning glory seeds)... 

Morning glory seeds Flying saucers, licorice drops, heavenly gates, pearly gates... 

Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl., or obscure morning glory, is a slender climber common on fences. It is native to tropical East Africa, the Mascarene Islands, tropical Asia, throughout the Malay Archipelago, to northern Australia and Fiji. The leaves are cordate to 5 cm long and the flowers are infundibuliform and creamy white (Fig. 35). 

Morning Glory and Related Species History and Botany... 

There are several species of flowering vines with hallucinogenic properties, commonly referred to as morning glory (Schultes and Hofman... 

Based on structural similarities, the neuropharmacological mechanisms of morning glory alkaloids are likely similar or identical to those of LSD. The subjective effects are also similar, but the lower potency of the alkaloids requires larger doses for hallucinogenic effects. Somatic effects tend to be pronounced, with nausea and gastrointestinal symptoms being very common. 

L. C. Vinmg, and R. A. Heacock Clavine and Lysergic acid Alkaloids in Varieties of Morning Glory. Ph3rtochemistry 2, 65 (1963). 

MORNING GLORY (Ipomoea purpurea Roth) MUSTARD (Brassica pekinensis)... 

Source Strychnine silver morning glory, wood rose, and in Strychnosnusvomica L. 15,800,400-12,000,8,000, and 7,030 ppm in bark, seeds, leaves, and roots, respectively (Duke, 1992). 

Resin Glycosides from the Morning Glory Family... 

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. 

The botanical name Convolvulaceae for the morning glory family derives from the Latin convolvo, meaning interlaced, and describes a growth pattern of intertwining vines wrapping around a support, and is characteristic of the majority of the species... 

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