Homolycorine is one of a number of toxic alkaloids found in various Amaryllidaceae species such as daffodils (Narcissus).
Sources
- Four new Amaryllidaceae alkaloids from Zephyranthes candida. Shitara N, Hirasawa Y, Hasumi S, Sasaki T, Matsumoto M, Wong CP, Kaneda T, Asakawa Y, Morita H (2014 Jul) Journal of natural medicines, 68(3):610-4
- Acta Crystallographica
- T. Kitagawa, W. I. Taylor, S. Uyeo and H. Yajima. The constitution of homolycorine and lycorenine J. Chem. Soc., 1955, 1066-1068 DOI: 10.1039/JR9550001066