Accession Data

Sceletium joubertii

Common Name: Kanna, Kougoed

Family: Aizoaceae

Country of Origin: South Africa - Bloutoring, Little Karoo

Description: S. Brack 979

old leaves dry to a skeletal network of veins. Leaves are fermented, dried and chewed by indigenous people; alkaloids (mesembrines) have mild stimulant and halucinogenic effects.

Accession Data

Accession #: 199900599

Accession Date: 1999-11-01 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2206

Quantity: 2

Source: Matt Opel

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Aizoaceae

SubFamily: Mesembryanthemoideae

Flowering Data:

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References

Personal communication with Matt Opel, source of this accession

Images

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