Yopo tree

Cohoba snuff is made from seeds of the yopo tree (Anadenanthera peregrinag seen here near Boa Vista in Amazonian Brazil. 

In 1801, the German explorer and naturalist Baron Alexander von Humboldt (after whom the Pacific current is named), identified the yopo tree botanically. While collecting flora near the Orinoco River, he watched the Maypure Indians prepare cohoba snuff by breaking the pods, moistening them and allowing them to ferment. When the pods turned black, they were kneaded with cassava meal and lime from snails into small cakes, which were eventually powdered. Humboldt noted, "it is not to be believed that the... 

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is an active principle of various South American snuff, such as COHOBA and YOPO . It has been produced synthetically for a number of years, but its abuse has been restricted to a small number of dedicated users. Bufotin is very similar to DMT from a chemical point of view. It can be found either in the skin secretions of toads or in combinations with DMT in different trees in South America (for example, YOPO tree). 

Plant derived indoleamines, resembling 5-HT, include 5-methoxydimethyl tryptamine [bufotenine], psilocin, psilocybine, lysergic acid amides and dime-thyltryptamine (DMT), one of the most powerful hallucinogens. DMT and bufotenine occur for in example seeds from the Anadenanthera tree, used as a snuff called Yopo by South American Indians. 

Like Ayahuasa, Yopo from the beans of the Anandenthera colubrine tree which are smoked or taken as snuff by Argentinian Indians to induce halluci-... 

Material Indole-based alkaloid found in seeds, pods, bark, and resins of several South American trees, including Piptadenia peregrina and Virola calophylla, used in the snuffs yopo, epena, and parica. 

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Virola tree Virola calophylla and other species South America Yakee, yopo... 

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