Peyote??
Jadeboy48@aol.com (Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:35:13 PDT)

Dear david, I am not sure if you got my other message but I can assure that
they (Growers) do NOT put peyote cactus plants in dish gardens!The peyote
cactus has a drug that acts like LSD on the brain. Unless you are a member
of the Native American Church it is a felony to grow and possess the plant.
I would have to look it up but it may have been as far back as !930 that
it was made illegal by the feds. Just type in Peyote cactus in a search
engine. You are in for quite a surprise. You must have confused this cactus
with something else in your dish garden. As a grower of cactus for resale I
can assure you no one in their right mind would plant this in a dish garden
for resale. If you find a dish garden with what you are sure is peyote can
you please send me a picture. I am a Botanical Taxonomist and would like to
know what you are seeing. By the way peyote grown from seed has a fleshy,
carrot like taproot, smooth skin, white flowers and a globular head growing
off the taproot. It almost never clumps in nature unless the top has been
cut off. Then the head can resprout, sometimes with multiple globular
heads. It is rare in nature because of over harvesting for drug use-Russ H.

In a message dated 4/5/2013 6:40:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
idavide@sbcglobal.net writes:

A federal crime to grow peyote? Peyote is typically included in those
gift
cactus plantings sold throughout the southwest. I shouldn't doubt that
many
members of this group grow it, although I doubt any of us use it as a
narcotic.

David E.
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