UPDATE 2: Click here to watch a slideshow of Zanthoxylum rhoifolium photos ( taken from Google Image search results. It will open in a new tab )

UPDATE: This post was updated and corrected with new information. The previous version was not erased but instead it was striked through to avoid confusion.

An anthropologist A biologist reported to me that Brazilian quilombolas, probably located in the state of Santa Catarina , located in Comunidade Quilombola Furnas da Boa Sorte, city of Corguinho, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, are smoking Zanthoxylum rhoifolium rootbark ( the species in the picture ). They do this so that they can obtain mild hallucinogenic effects.

Here is the original Facebook post in a public community.

He told me that they take young plants off the ground entirely, and then proceed to smoke their rootbark.

DMT has already been detected in the leaves of Zanthoxylum arborescens. Now, it seems that maybe a blend of DMT and other alkaloids is also present in the rootbark of such Zanthoxylum plants.

EDIT: After this post got published in social media, some people are questioning its authencity, as it was published by some random WordPress blogger. Therefore, I’ll just copy and paste the answer I gave to one of these people below.

I’m neither trolling nor trying to get people read my blog; this would be pointless, as most of you can’t even understand what’s written in the blog in the first place ( it’s almost entirely written in Portuguese ). I have posted this information in my blog instead of something such as a pastebin so that people can contact me through the comments. This information is real and it was published in a Facebook community called “Identificação de Plantas”. The anthropologist biologist was asking people precisely what kind of Zanthoxylum is this ( it turns out it’s probably Zanthoxylum procerum rhoifolium ) as he saw that quilombolas in his local area were smoking its rootbark and reporting mild hallucinogenic effects. I’m not the anthropologist biologist in question, and there aren’t any academic papers published about Zanthoxylum sp. usage among such communities yet, as this person is probably one of the few hundred people in the planet who even know these quilombolas are smoking this plant’s root material. I’m publishing this information so that, in case the said anthropologist biologist chooses to not officially publish his findings in the near future, the world public won’t be deprived from accessing this information, and therefore, research can be resumed later on by someone else, elsewhere in the planet. There’s a certain likelihood that he won’t publish this data, or that it won’t become very widely known, as psychedelic research is still a taboo subject among most of the Brazilian academia. I hope this post was enough to clarify the matter and my intentions in posting it here.