i have been wandering through some gardens and for some cacti i think may be of interest and am wondering if anyone can comfirm my suspisions. here are some photos . feebak would be greatly aprecitated. i am able to take cutting of these to grow at home for thier beauty.

are they active?















i am extremley experianced with san pedro and have delved deep into the void, i also just love the effects of cacti, such a clean clear headed visually astounding experiance.

so if anyone can tell me if any of these are active that coul be great

peace long live nexus

sorry, no
not sure what the last one is though

i could swear the first one is a deformed pedro variant as its 15 years old and the last one i think may be some kind of trich torch i have seen a similar looking cacti on erowid. any way i might find a way to test for alkaloids.

thanks for you input

to test you can do a simple extraction and use a marquis reagent to test for mesc, it gives a bright orange reaction. That first plant is a Cereus, not a Trichocereus, it is unlikely to be active like San Pedro is.

There is one plant there that might be active:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/4igf8

plants like it are depicted in some funky andean art and they are rumored to be chemically interesting but in need of formal study
it is something like tephrocactus/maihueniopsis
globular/spherical opuntioids are worth looking into further.

wich one might be active?
i will look in to globular/spherical opuntioids.

cheers

i thought the last one looked something like this..
http://www.erowid.org/pl...ti/trichocereus_spp1.jpg

it does look a little bit similar, the last one reminds me of Trichocereus thelegonus:
http://image89.webshots....50039969504slCOWB_ph.jpg

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Just funny I thought.