剛開始看怪異，看久了可愛的龍膽

上次在植物園的戶外教學，我看到一些長著怪異紫色花苞的植物，問TA，TA說不知道是什麼。(照片不是我拍的)

回家查資料發現是龍膽的一種，bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewii)，紫色的是花，不只是花苞。Wisconsin有紫的和白的近似種，紫的較常見，兩種還會雜交。我們很幸運地遇到它的開花期(8-10月)。緊閉的花瓣其實是植物的詭計，因為蜜蜂必須擠進去取花蜜，難免弄得滿身花粉！

If I Have a Garden (Psychoactive Plants That I Want to Own)

If I have a garden, those are some beautiful or useful legal psychoactive plants that I'd love to have. I hope all of them will still be legal when I get a garden. (Of course I'd love some illegal ones too, but they are illegal.)

1. Datura spp. (angel's trumpet; jimson weed)

Major active chemicals: atropine, scopolamine (anticholinergic deliriant)

2. Papaver spp. (poppy)
 
Major active chemical: morphine (analgesic)

3. Echinopsis peruviana (Peruvian torch cactus)
 

Major active chemical: mescaline (psychedelic)

4. Nicotiana spp. (tobacco)

Major active chemical: nicotine (stimulant??)

5. Ipomoea tricolor (morning glory)

 

Major active chemical: ergine (aka LSA, psychedelic)

6. Passiflora spp. (passion flower)

Major active chemicals: chrysin and other flavones (sedative), harman (MAOI)

 

7. Psychotria viridis

Major active chemical: DMT (psychedelic)

8. Coffea spp. (coffee tree)

Major active chemical: caffeine (stimulant)

9. Scutellaria spp. (skullcap)

Major active chemicals: baicalein and other flavones (sedative)