dreamer042 wrote:P.S. - Many Opuntia contain small amounts of mescaline.
By small we mean microscopic to the point of insignificant? I'd call this apocryphal-to-myth status. Whichever, it's something that deserves re-analysis.
Reading through KTrout's marvellous collection of cactus information, it appears that in at least one instance misidentification was at play. The report of mescaline occurring in Opuntia cylindrica, as it was then known, was almost certainly a misidentified Trichocereus specimen.
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