Description: Sceletium tortuosum is a succulent groundcover which produces showy white flowers with threadlike petals. It's fermented roots and leaves were chewed by the hotentot tribe of S. Africa as a vision inducing entheogen and inebriant. The plant contains mesembrine though the pharmacology of kanna is not fully understood. (Mesembryanthemaceae, Sceletium (Mesembryanthemum), emarcidum; tortuosum)
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