One last photo to end this thread on San Pedro 🌵.

It is a San Pedro cactus intertwined with a Brugmansia (Angel's trumpet), which is closely related to Datura, another psychoactive plant. Although there, it was purely an ornamental plant.

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Another pot of boiling San Pedro 🌵! This one from Ecuador.
Unlike the one prepared with fresh cactus that I shared earlier, this one is made from dried powder.
Unfortunately, I wasn't there to follow the whole process, and I don't know the details.

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Then, the slices of cactus are boiled in water for a few hours.
Here's a photo I took when my friend was preparing it in Peru, in the sacred valley of Cusco. I was in charged of skimming off the froth, which makes it bitter!

Some people also add (plenty of) lemon squeeze for a better taste.

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How do you prepare San Pedro? 🌵

First, the cactus is sliced. You get star shaped slices. The shape varies depending on the number of ribs and the size of the cactus.

The tip of the cactus is usually kept to grow another plant, by simply placing it on a fresh soil.

I didn't have a photo of this step, and I found this one on Wikimedia Commons.

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In this close-up photo, you can see that San Pedro cacti 🌵 have 6 to 8 ribs. The plant grows more ribs as it gets bigger. Of course the symbolic of the number of ribs can be of importance during ceremonies. I heard some have as many as 13, 17...!

Notice also the nice green-blue colour.

This photo was taken from the same botanical garden than the previous one.

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