Rapé Yopo
The Rapé de Yopo contains ashes from Parica, Mapacho Sabia and Mapacho Arapiraca. It has Yopo cebil seeds (Anadenanthera Colubrina) added to the mix.
Yopo seeds are used by various tribes as an ingredient in their yopo mixtures. Several tribes in Colombia and Venezuela use Yopo seeds in their ceremonies and rituals.
The Piaroa indigenous use them in the making of rapé. It is also used in Paraguay and among the Mataco indigenous people of northern Argentina.
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Yopo Tree
(Anadenanthera Peregrina)
Anadenanthera peregrina is a tree that reaches between 3 to 18 meters in height. It is distributed in South America (Colombia to Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia) and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago).
The bark is corky, brown or gray and its fruit is a ribbon-shaped pod that contains semi-round, flattened, yellowish-brown seeds, which contain alkaloids and other active ingredients.
The Anadenanthera peregrina species is also known by the names of yopo macho, yomba and lomo de caiman. In the Orinoco area it is known as curupa and niopo, in the plains and Guaviare as yopo, ñopa and yupa, in the Amazon it is known as parica, in Peru as huilca or vilca, and in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile as sebil. or civil
Another species (Piptadenia aff. opacifolia Ducke), called today Piptadenia pteroclada Benth.) is known as yopo, yopa, false yopo or guayacán yopo. The two species are confused in scientific and popular literature.
In the Antilles, especially on the old island of Hispaniola, the term cohoba has been used interchangeably to refer to yopo and Mapacho, due to their similar way of consumption; However, it is more appropriate to relate the term cohoba to yopo.
The German naturalist Alejandro Von Humboldt, while traveling through the Otomac nation, made the first scientific observation of the Yopo according to the Linnean nomenclature, and made the following observations about the Yopo, a tree which he called “Acacia Niopo”:
“They collect the long peels of a mimosaceae that we have made known under the name of Acacia Niopo… Niopo is so stimulating that the smallest portions make those who are not used to sneeze violently.”
Cebil (Anadenanthera colubrina) is a tree of the genus Leguminosae. It is a beautiful, delicate fern-leaved tree with spreading branches. In season, beautiful white flowers and dark leather-brown pods hang from its branches. The pods contain black pip seeds 10-15 mm in diameter.