Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
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Asteraceae
Lactuca virosa
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Star Order (Daisies) |
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AKA: Wild Lettuce, Bitter lettuce, Laitue vireuse, Opium Lettuce, Poisonous Lettuce, or Rakutu-Karyumu-So.
The plant has been used as an anesthetic and a sleep aid, as well as recreationally. Oils and extracts can also be produced from L. virosa. These oils and extracts are often added to tea to help induce sleep.
It has also been found to increases breast milk in women, particularly when used in combination with alfalfa.
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Prickly Lettuce:
The closest wild relative of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
They emit a milky sap when cut.
The plant can be eaten as a salad, although it has something of a bitter taste.
It can also cause euphoria, relaxation, and at very high doses visual and auditory distortions from the lactucarium, although not as potent as the opiate effects of Lactuca virosa
The Egyptian god Min is associated with this variety of lettuce.
A common name for Prickly Lettuce is "Compass Plant", because the leaves on the main stem grow vertically in a north-south plane, perpendicular to the sun.
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - November 07, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - August 06, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - August 06, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant - July 29, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant - July 29, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant - July 05, 2009
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Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant
Wild Lettuce, Opium Lettuce - Plant - July 05, 2009
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Wild Lettuce - Plant
Wild Lettuce - Plant - July 02, 2009
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Purple Sowthistle - Plant
Purple Sowthistle - Plant - May 18, 2009
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Purple Prickly Lettuce - Plant
Purple Prickly Lettuce - Plant - May 04, 2009
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Purple Prickly Lettuce - Plant
Purple Prickly Lettuce - Plant - May 04, 2009
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