Victor A. Reko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian ethnobiologist
Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1880
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Profession: anthropologist
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Victor A. Reko
- Viktor Aloisius Reko, (born August 3, 1880 in Vienna) was an Austrian teacher and scientific author who moved to Mexico in 1921.
- He is best known for his popular book Magische Gifte: Rausch- und Betäubungsmittel der Neuen Welt ("Magic Poisons: Inebriating and Narcotic Substances of the New World"), first published in 1936.
- This book recorded a number of second-hand observations on New World psychoactive drugs, paraphrased from notes he took of conversations with his cousin, the eminent Mexican ethnobotanist Dr.
- Blas Pablo Reko, including the first published refutation of Dr.
- William Edwin Safford's uncharacteristically untenable assertion that teonanácatl was not a mushroom, but a cactus.
- Reko's book also covered the following drugs, many of which were not mentioned in the earlier book Phantastica by Louis Lewin: sinicuichi (Heimia spp.) for which he falsely claimed psychoactivity, Ololiúqui (Turbina corymbosa), peyotl (Lophophora williamsii), marihuana (Cannabis sativa), toloachi (Datura stramonium var.
- tatula), ayahuasca, colorines (Erythrina and Sophora species), coztic-zapote (Pouteria campechiana), xomil-xihuite (Gelsemium sempervirens), camotillo (Dioscorea composita), and cohombrillo (Ecballium elaterium).
- The second edition also contained chicalote (supposedly obtained from a cross between Argemone mexicana and Papaver somniferum), minapatli (Sebastiania pavoniana, Mexican jumping bean), and herbas locas (Dioon edule, Astragalus amphyoxys, and Oxytropis lambertii).Victor A.
- Reko became a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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