Peyote Alkaloids: Identification in the Mexican Cactus Pelecyphora aselliformis Ehrenberg
Science June 9, 1972 J.m. Neal, Patricia Sato, William N. Howald et al. 16 citations
Alkaloid extracts from the Mexican peyote cactus Pelecyphora aselliformis Ehrenberg contain hordenine, anhalidine, pellotine, 3-demethyltrichocereine, mescaline, 3,4-dimethoxy-β-phenethylamine, and the N-monomethyl derivatives of mescaline and 3,4-dimethoxy-β-phenethylamine. This is the first report of mescaline and several other alkaloids occurring in a North American cactus outside the genus Lophophora.