Trichocereus pachanoi BRITTON & ROSE

 

93.5% water by weight according to POISSON 1960.

 

·         3,4-Dimethoxyphenethylamine (1-10% of over 50 mg total alkaloids / 100 gram fresh) AGURELL 1969b175

·         3-Hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine (trace) AGURELL 1969b

·         3-Methoxytyramine (0.01% by dry weight) CROSBY & MCLAUGHUN 1973176; (1-10% of over 50 mg total alkaloid/100 gram fresh) AGURELL 1969b; (Less than 0.01% fresh) AGURELL 1969a. [Also reported in AGURELL & LUNDSTRÒM 1968]

·         4-Hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine (trace) AGURELL 1969a and 1969b. Also reported in AGURELL & LUNDSTRÒM 1968

·         Tyramine (trace) AGURELL 1969a and AGURELL 1969b

·         Hordenine (trace> AGURELL 1969b

·         Mescaline 0.025%+ (over 25 mg per 100 grams) [AGURELL 1969b] to 0.12% [POISSON 1960 ] 177 reported by fresh weight. [Also 0.04% fresh ~ 0.67% dry: AGURELL 1969a & 0.067-0.079% fresh: BRUHN & LUNDSTRÒM 1976a]; Recoveries from 0.331% [CROSBY & MC LAUGHLIN 1973] up to 2.0 % [POISSON 1960] have been reported from dry  plants. [See also TURNER & HEYMAN178 1960  who reported 0.9% by dry weight in misidentified plants.]; From 0.109%-2.375% dry wt. (6 specimens) was estimated photometrically in Swiss cultivated plants by HEIMLIN & BRENNEISEN 1992179;. [A gc estimate of 0.155% free base by dry wt. was made on a nongrafted control vs. 0.15% ten months after being used for grafting (with the mescaline-free T. spachianus). (Initially 2” by 12” plants) PUMMANGURA et aL 1982a] HUERTA 1960 also reported; in correctly identified plants.

·         Anhalonidine (0.01% of total alkaloid) AGURELL 1969a; (trace) AGURELL 1969b

·         Alkaloids were detected in BROWN et al. 1968 but none were identified

 

[Anhalinine has been listed in error. The reference cited, AGURELL 1969b did not report this alkaloid.] [Alkaloid values are often low in many cultivated plants.]

[Pellotine was listed in STHARA n.d., citing LUNDSTROM 1970 This article was stolen from our available copy so we are unable to include more information]

Unidentified lactone-forming acid (tlc by KRINGSTAD & NORDAL 1975)

T. pachanoi (Henrietta’s) showing v-marks above the areoles has been reported to have a “high alkaloid content”. Anonymous bioassays; information relayed by MS SMITH 1999

 

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175 Obtained via European commercial sources

176 Obtained via Californian commercial sources

177 Collected in Peru

178 Collected in Peru?

179 Note that this is nearly 23X from max to min (i.e A San Pedro specimen was observed that was almost 23 times stronger than another San Pedro that was simultaneously being evaluated)

 

Addendum for C-10a (Apr. 2001)

           

Trichocereus pachanoi

0.310% by fresh weight (3.10 mg/gm fresh: average of three specimens; estimated using HPLC)

They also reported an average of 2.06% by dry weight (Ed.: Note the obvious discrepancy)

Grown in ltaly

GENNARO et al. 1996

Aglycones isolated after acid or enzymatic hydrolysis

of the isolated corresponding sapogenins:

Pachanols A & B

Bridgesigenins A, B & C

KINOSHITA 1995

 

(da : Trout's Notes on Cactus Chemistry By Species - revis. 10- 99)  

 

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