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Banisteriopsis caapi

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Spruce ex Grisebach) C.V. Morton

Cultivated

C, hallucinogen

Common Names

• Ayahuasca (Spanish
• Quichua)
• Datem (Aguaruna)
• Antteppo'cho'su Yaje (Cofan)
• Wa'I Yahe (Ecuador)
• Jugubo (Brazil)
• Yage or Bejuco Bravo or Caapi (Brazil)
• Mado or Mado Bidada y Rami-wetsem (Culina)
• Ñucñu Huasca y Shimbaya Huasca (Quechua)
• Kamalampi (Piro)
• Punga Huasca or Rambi y Shuri (Sharanahua)
• Ayahuasca Amarillo or Ayawasca or Nishi y Oni (Shipibo)
• Ayahuasca Negro or Ayahuasca Blanco or Cielo Ayahuasca or Shillinto Natema (Jíbaro)
• Bejuco de Oro (Colombia)
• Mi-hi (Cubeo)
• Amarron Huasca e Inde Huasca (Ingano)
• Yajé (Kofán)
• Shuri-fisopa y Shuri-oshinipa (Sharanahua)
• Napi or Nepe (Spanish)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest near stream
• forest margin
• riverside
• forest. inundated areas.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jul
• Oct

Large woody twining vine or liana to 30m with silky hairy younger parts becoming glabrate, glabrate lenticellate striate branches. Glabrate leaves with translucent yellow veins, to 180mm x 90mm. Axillary or terminal panicles to 300mm long with bracts & bractlets to 3mm long & floral leaves to 30mm long, 17mm diameter white flowers turning pink or yellow-cream, fimbriate glabrous petals to 8mm. Samaras with wings to 35mm x 17mm, sericeous nut to 5mm wide.

Hallucinogenic qualities. Large vine, thick stemmed

Cultivated, stems & leaves boiled to make hallucinogenic drink for religious purposes. Medicinal uses. Aphrodisiac

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• HUBM
• PMAP