BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION

Family : Mesembryanthemaceae

Genus : Sceletium (Mesembryanthemum)

Species : emarcidum; tortuosum

COMMON NAMES

Kanna; Canna; Channa; Kaugoed

EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION

Inebriating Sedative

DESCRIPTION

Sceletium tortuosum is a succulent groundcover which produces showy white flowers with threadlike petals. Its fermented roots and leaves were chewed by the Khoisan of S. Africa as a vision-inducing entheogen and inebriant. The plant contains mesembrine, though the pharmacology of kanna is not fully understood.