Psychotria viridis is a species of the family Rubiaceae (Rubiaceae), the lowland rainforest in south-growing, Central America and Cuba. It contains the hallucinogenic alkaloid tryptamine N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and its leaves are used in the Amazon region, together with the bark of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi to produce the drug "ayahuasca or caapi.
Psychotria viridis grows as two to four meters tall tree with smooth bark. The opposite leaves are sessile or stalked up to eight millimeters long. The leaf blade has a pointed end and a wedge-shaped elliptic base. In the dried state, they are reddish brown to green brown. The stipules are ovate, pointed and slightly darker in the center. They fall off later, leaving scars on the stem between two adjacent leaves. The flower heads are triple-branched panicles or compact cyme, which are terminal or seemingly axillary. These are as characteristic of the way all secondary axes in each case except the first two shortened. The seated flowers have a cup-shaped cup from about 0.5 millimeters in length. Rarely are five sepals recognizable as individual sheets. The corolla is a white, cylindrical tube of a pronounced up to 1.5 millimeters. It is inside hairy and ends in five lanceolate tips. Five stamens reach like the stylus of a length of about 2.5 millimeters. The fruit is red when ripe stone fruit that changes color when drying red-brown. It is crowned by the calyx, and has the top four to five on the bottom two grooves.
The flowering period extends from September to March, fruits are borne from January to July.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotria_viridis
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