A genus of small cacti from Mexico, formerly used as the scientific name for peyote, known for psychoactive properties.
From Nahuatl 'analli' (peyote) + Latin '-ium' (genus suffix). Named by botanists in the 18th century, though the plant was called 'peyote' by indigenous peoples for millennia.
Anhalonium is basically an old scientific name that botanists have mostly replaced with 'Lophophora'—but it shows how European scientists tried to rename plants already used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years!
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