''Galbulimima belgraveana'' is a
hallucinogenic plant. Its common names include agara and white magnolia.
It is native to northeastern
Australia
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,
Malaysia, and
Papua New Guinea. Papuans (who tend to use this drug the most) boil the bark and the leaves together with another plant, called ''
Homalomena
''Homalomena'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. ''Homalomena'' are found in southern Asia and the southwestern Pacific. Many ''Homalomena'' have a strong smell of anise. The name derives apparently from a mistranslated Mala ...
'', in order to make tea. This tea leads to a deep sleep, in which it is said that vivid dreams and visions occur. The plant itself grows to about 90 feet, it has no petals and its flower are a yellow-brown colour.
Several psychoactive alkaloids structurally related to
himbacine, a
muscarinic receptor antagonist, have been isolated from the plant, but the primary psychoactive constituent responsible for the plant's hallucinogenic effects has not yet been identified.
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The tree is also used for its wood.[
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Magnoliales
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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