Share The Seeds
Botany and Research => Botanical Information => Topic started by: adamantasaurus on December 03, 2014, 08:14:53 PM
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Has anyone ever heard of this plant it is called Banisteriopsis mathiasea I have the seeds planted now and I got them from this guy on FB
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=284427605092077&set=pcb.284427781758726&type=1&theater
I cant find any info about this plant online and the guy that I bought them from doesnt have any info either if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated
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My research came up with a few papers written by a guy named Mathias Nebel talking about banesteriopsis species. Synonym: Stigmaphyllon mathiasiae. Found a picture of a herbarium specimen for the plant. B. methiasea is just a synonym of the name Stigmaphyllon mathiasiae (Bronwenia mathiasiae may be the same too?) Here are some resources about it. I haven't completely read through them but I'm sure they will help.
The name Stigmaphyllon mathiasiae pulls up more info than B. mathiasea. Also, Kiwi is offering it for sale.
http://kiwiboancaya.net/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=51
http://plants.jstor.org/stable/history/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.mich1102295
http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/malpigh/MALPpdf/C20-NeoMal-v.pdf
Collector
M.E. Mathias & D. Taylor, #6078
Collection Date
1962/07/31
Locality
Ucayali, Loreto, Pucallpa-AguaytÃa road, km 34 just W ofTournavista
Country
Peru (Peru)
Identifications
Holotype of Stigmaphyllon mathiasiae W.R.Anderson [family MALPIGHIACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by W.R. Anderson, 1981 Banisteriopsis mathiasiae (W.R Anderson) W.R.Anderson [family MALPIGHIACEAE]; Verified by W.R. Anderson, 1994
Notes
Liana; petals brilliant yellow (5 Y 9/9) with strong reddish orange stripes (7.5 R 5/13) on lower petal
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Thanks so much I will read through these papers, hopefully mine get to germinate. Yea the guy I bought the seeds from I think is with the same company as kiwi.
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OMG I so need this plant ! :D
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Kiwi has been offering it for a few years. Originally it was listed as 'White caapi' until our buddy Zaka over at the Nook ID'd it, the same way it happened with Alicia.
Whether it really is used as an ayahuasca or not is anybody's guess, it doesn't appear in the ethnobotanical literature at all to my knowledge.
Assuming the seeds you got and the seeds I got are from the same plant (which might not be a valid assumption), they should have high viability, and pop within just a few days. I got 9/9 to germinate a few years ago, but then lost all of them sometime later to lack of water. :(
I had kept one aside for future ID purposes and decided about a year later to try germinating it. Germinate it did :), and two years later it's still alive. ;D The species either is very slow to grow or needs lots of root space to stimulate it to grow. Mine is now about 7 or 8 inches high going into it's third year and still in a shallow 5 in pot. It is now for the first time putting out branches and multiple leaf sets at the same time. Prior to this it has always been just one growing tip and one (very slow) set of leaves at a time.
I recommend planting the seeds very shallowly with the wing sticking up. The whole seed coat will split exposing the embryo and the cotyledons. A root then goes down and a shoot comes up and forms a pair of true leaves without the cotyledons ever doing anything but sitting there. Never saw anything like it, but then I'm not an experienced botanist either, just a rabid amateur.
The mature leaves are thick and kinda hard like a holly leaf.
And I think the correct spelling is 'mathiasae'.
That's everything I know about this plant. Will add more later if anything else comes to mind.
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It's also the least cold hardy member of the Malpighiaceae family that I'm growing. Alicia anisopetala, Alicia macrodisca, Banisteriopsis caapi, Banisteriopsis muricata, and Heteropterys orinocensis all did fine in an unheated greenhouse over the winter. Of the 4 banisteriopsis mathiasiae plants I have, only one has woken up so far this spring.
It's also by far the slowest growing of them.
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Would love a shot at growing this guy as well! Maybe I can find some seeds if they aren't sold out yet. Unfortunately this winter I lost my B. muricata so I'm in need of replacing that as well. Caapi is such an interesting plant and I'd like to help preserve them all!