These rare Rivea Corymbosa (Ololiuqui) seeds are related to Morning Glories, and come from Oaxaca, Mexico where they are cherished for both their history and the shamanic use. Shamans would ingest 20-30 seeds to communicate with the spirit world, although it's illegal to do so today in the United States and many parts of the world.

This prized plant provides only 1-2 seeds per flower, unlike Morning Glories that drop thousands of seeds per plant! But it's easy to grow, it's a fast-growing viney plant, and loves water and sunlight. It will quickly fill a windowsill or an entire garden if you let it.   Also, since these grow so abundantly and quickly, what we have done at the shop is cultivate the plants that generate 2 seeds per pod instead of 1, and then we start over with new plants germinated from the 2 seed pods.  Not only is there a much larger quantity of Rivea seeds per harvest, as a much larger percentage of the seed pods have 2 seeds instead of 1, we hope to generate pods that have 3 seeds or maybe even 4.  Time will tell and we will keep you posted.

Actually, many believe that the sacred Aztec hallucinogen "Ololiuhqui" is perhaps the best kept secret from the outside world today, and that Rivea corymbosa seeds could be the exact plant that was described by the Aztecs.  Ololiuhqui is widely used among the local Indians in Sierra Madre, Oaxaca Mexico, and it has been reported that the local Mazatecas use the Rivea corybosa seeds for divination purposes when the Teonanacatl Mushrooms are not available, so this is a distinct possibility.

 

Rivea corybosa grows easily and abundantly in the mountains of southern Mexico. Today in almost all the villages of Oaxaca you can find the Rivea corybosa plant and the seeds still serving the natives magic moments.  The plant itself is a climber, like Ipomoea violacea (Morning Glory) and has also been called "snake-plant" or "coaxihuitl" in the Nahuatl language. Seeds of the Rivea corybosa plant are very closely related to Morning Glories, it is a very rare but easily grown plant. It flowers abundantly, producing beautiful clusters of white tubular flowers. Ololiuhqui is the Nahuatl name for the seeds of the Rivea corybosa plant and means 'round thing', the seeds are small, oval and brown.

 

Find more about this rare and exotic botanical in the Ololiuqui article on Entheology.org.

THESE UNTREATED SEEDS ARE NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.