Magical Mints & the Dagga Sisters

Donald Armstrong
4 min readMay 31, 2022

This is the third installment of a four-part series on psychoactive plants in the mint family (botanical name Lamiaceae). This post’s focus is on the Leonotis genus, colorful shrubs native to tropical Africa and southern India.

LAMIACEAE is a family of plants with about 236 genera and more than 7,000 species. There is some confusion about how they are all related, so the above numbers are only tentative…

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