Banisteriopsis caapi

Botanical Description

Yage is a large climbing shrub, producing woody stems up to 30 metres long and twining itself round other plants for support. The plant is often harvested from the wild for local use as a medicinal plant. Besides the exploitation of wild plants, the species is also often cultivated in South America by various indigenous tribes, though cultivated plants are said to be less potent[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. , 434 Title Flora of Peru Publication Author Macbride. J.F. Publisher Field Museum of Natural History Year 1936 ISBN Description An excellent attempt at a Flora of Peru, though it is clear that many of the plants were imperfectly known at that time and so information on them was sketchy. Available for download from the Internet. ]. With a growing interest in many countries to use this plant as an hallucinogen, it is now traded internationally on a small scale.