Facts of note from this document:
• Collectors can't tell one Hoodia from another by simple
appearance
• Hoodia are endangered plants damaged in the wild from over
harvesting
• Hoodia Gordonii is the only plant licensed for export—is
that why it is so hyped?
• Several Hoodia varieties have the same appetite suppressing
property
• Hoodia gordonii is NOT the "only true Hoodia" in
the diet scam! |
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Species and varieties. There are many
forms of this plant, a few being:
Hoodia albispina, Hoodia alstonii, Hoodia annulata, Hoodia
bainii, Hoodia bainii var. juttae, Hoodia barklyi, Hoodia
burkei, Hoodia cactiformis, Hoodia colei, Hoodia currorii
ssp. currorii, Hoodia currorii ssp. lugardii, Hoodia
currorii var. minor, Hoodia delaetiana, Hoodia dinteri,
Hoodia dregei, Hoodia felina, Hoodia flava, Hoodia foetida,
Hoodia genilis, Hoodia gibbosa, Hoodia gordonii [The
official name is Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.
[2] The plant was originally described twice: first by Sweet
in 1830 and then by Masson, who named it Stapelia gordonii.
As the description by Sweet is the older one, it has
priority, and the name Stapelia is thus not valid.]
Hoodia grandis, Hoodia haagnerae, Hoodia husabensis, Hoodia
juttae, Hoodia langii, Hoodia longispina, Hoodia lugardii,
Hoodia macrantha, Hoodia marlothii, Hoodia meloformis,
Hoodia montana, Hoodia mossamedensis, Hoodia officinalis ssp.
delaetiana, Hoodia officinalis ssp. officinalis, Hoodia
parviflora, Hoodia pedicellata, Hoodia perlata, Hoodia picta,
Hoodia pilifera ssp. annulata, Hoodia pilifera ssp. pilifera,
Hoodia pilifera ssp. pillansii, Hoodia pillansi, Hoodia
rosea, Hoodia ruschii (Queen of the Namib), Hoodia rustica,
Hoodia senilis, Hoodia similis, Hoodia sociarum, Hoodia
tirasmontana, Hoodia triebneri, Hoodia whitesloaneana.
The use of Hoodia has been long known by the indigenous
populations of Southern Africa, ...the South African Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) isolated the
ingredient in hoodia (now known as P57) responsible for this
appetite-suppressant effect ..." |
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