peyote

For decades, Zulema 'Julie' Morales has harvested peyote in Rio Grande City, along the southern border in Texas, the only region in the U.S. where it grows in the wild.

From Texas Standard: In ecological terms, South Texas is known as brush country – it’s home to lots of thorny shrubs, trees and palms. Its humid climate...

It’s the most misunderstood cactus in Texas – Peyote. For thousands of years before the arrival of the European it was a sacred plant for the original…