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'''Acacia berlandieri''' ('Berlandier Acacia', 'Guajillo Acacia', 'guajillo', 'huajillo') is a shrub native to the Southwestern United States that belongs to the Fabaceae (bean family). It grows 1m to 5m tall, with blossoms that are spherical and white, occurring from February through April.University of Texas Native Plant Information Network The ''berlandieri'' epithet comes from the name of Jean-Louis Berlandier^[1], a French naturalist who studied wildlife native to Texas and Mexico. ''A. berlandieri'' contains a wide variety of alkaloids and has been known to cause toxic reactions in domestic animals such as goats.^[2]

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Uses

Alkaloids

Some chemical compounds found in ''Acacia berlandieri''

References

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Uses

''A. berlandieri'' is toxic to livestock and thus should not be used as forage or fodder.^[3]

Alkaloids

''A. berlandieri'' contains a number of diverse alkaloids, the most plentiful of which are N-methylphenethylamine, tyramine, and phenethylamine. In a recent study, researchers identified thirty-one alkaloids in samples of plant foliage, including trace amounts of five amphetamines previously believed to be human inventions:^[4] amphetamine, methamphetamine, N,N-dimethylamphetamine, p-hydroxyamphetamine and p-methoxyamphetamine. Other trace alkaloids include DMT (found in many related species), nicotine, and mescaline (found in many cacti but infrequently in other plants). The same group of researchers later reported finding most of the same alkaloids in ''A. rigidula'', a related species also native to the Southwestern U.S.

Some chemical compounds found in ''Acacia berlandieri''

Total alkaloids in dried leaves 0.28-0.66%.^[5]

★ Beta-methyl-phenethylamine^[6]

★ Catechin^[7]

★ Fisetin^[7]

★ Hordenine^[7]

★ Phenethylamine^[7]

★ Quercetin^[7]

★ Tyramine^[7]

★ Tryptamine 90-124 ppb in spring, 287-334 ppb in fall^[13]

★ Dimethyltryptamine fall only, 75-114 ppb¹³

References

1.
A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains, , Joel Ellis, Holloway, Texas Christian University Press, ,

2. Toxic amines and alkaloids from Acacia ''berlandieri'', , Beverly A., Clement, Phytochemistry,
3. Texas Toxic Plants
4. Ask Dr. Shulgin Online: Acacias and Natural Amphetamine
5. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, , Robert, Hegnauer, Springer, 1994,
6. Chemistry of Acacia's from South Texas
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13. BEVERLY A. CLEMENT, CHRISTINA M. GOFF and T. DAVID A. FORBES, TOXIC AMINES AND ALKALOIDS FROM ACACIA RIGIDULA, Phytochemistry Vol. 49, No. 5. pp. 1377-1380, 1998

External Links

★ Chemistry of Acacia's from South Texas