Mescal beans have been used for ceremonial purposes, but they are not chemically related to the similar sounding hallucinogen mescaline found in peyote. A taste of a mescal bean should not …

Mar 18, 2025 · The mescal bean plant, known for its vibrant red seeds, is toxic and can cause hallucinations if consumed. Found in the southwestern United States, it’s illegal to grow in …

The genus is native to southwestern North America from western Texas to New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, and south through Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León in …

The best known type of mescal is tequila, which is made from cultivated "blue agave," Agave tequiliana Weber (Gentry 1982:14-16). By contrast, mescalbean is the seed of the mountain …

The bright red seeds or berries of the mescal bush contain a potent—albeit deadly poisonous—alkaloids called sophorin or cytisine. Native to Texas and New Mexico, mescal …

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The brilliant, lacquer red seeds contain the highly poisonous alkaloid cytisine (or sophorine), a substance related to nicotine and widely cited as a narcotic and hallucinogen. Although mescal …

May 4, 2013 · a perennial woody evergreen member of the Sophora genus in the family Leguminosae. The plant, and especially the seeds, contains the poisonous alkaloid cytosine …

It is in leaf all year, in flower from April to May, and the seeds ripen in October. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. It can fix …

Quinolizidine alkaloids are the toxic agents in mescal bean. Sheep and goats are poisoned under range conditions. Cattle are also susceptible, based on results from feeding experiments. …