Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce the increasingly popular substance.
The team found CBD in the fruits and flowers of a plant known as Trema micrantha blume, a shrub which grows across much of the South American country and is often considered a weed, molecular biologist Rodrigo Moura Neto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told AFP in 2023.
Different genus, same family. This plant is a relative of hops, hackberry trees, and cannabis. All in the Cannabaceae family.
Naturally occurring compound is naturally occurring
and is often considered a weed
Everyone in Brazil about to drop that a
Okay that’s cool but at what concentration?
4.43 × 10− 3 µg of CBD per gram of the plant extract, and 1.05 × 10− 3 µg/g of THC
Thanks, that’s really really low. More than 1000x lower than C.Sativa. 1kg of plant leaves yields 4mg of CBD if my math is right.
We’ve been cultivating weed for generations to increase the potency. It’ll take time for this other plant to catch up, but not long.
Cannabis is ideal because of those tasty trichomes which are essentially balls of THC goo on the outside of the plant. The plant is basically a resin factory anyway, which makes extraction relatively easy. Potency is one aspect, but availability may take a bit more to work on.
Still, if legal, one would “boil” (not sure what the term is for oil soluble?) a kilo with no issue.
Extracting oils from plants is commonly called cooking or more technically extracting. It includes a step of boiling, but that’s not the whole process (decarboxylate, grind, boil, strain).
Or just heat press it. I think that starts the decarb, but I dunno.
x10^-3 micrograms seems odd to me. Why don’t they just use nanograms?
A standard of their own measurement, I suppose. Also, µg is easier to read than n g, IMHO.
Source?
The article does not mention it and even states there is no thc found in it.
However with what i know of cannabinoids it would be strange to find cbd and only cbd during the entire plants life.
But the article says it does not contain THC?
