Kamsa Youth with the Blossom of Culebra
Borrachera, Sibundoy
June 1953

The tree daturas are among the most dangerous and toxic of all psychoactive plants. Though useful in the treatment of asthma, they can in higher dosage induce a frightening state of psychotic delirium marked by burning thirst, nightmarish visions, a sensation of flight, and ultimately stupor and death. When Schultes first encountered this curious variety in 1941, he named it Methysticodendron amesianum in honor fo his Harvard professor Oakes Ames.