Botany / General

Subtypes:

• Botany / Cultivation
• Botany / Identification and Field Guides

Documents:

• Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti
  by Adam Gottlieb, 1977. "How to use them - How to extract them - What they contain - Where to obtain them - How to cultivate them and increase their potency"
• San Pedro Potency FAQ
  An inforrmal response to some common questions. From Usenet, 1994.
• Mescaline: A Psychedelic Catalyst for Healing
  An informative article on mescaline and mescaline-containing cacti, including history, anthropology, and preparation.
• San Pedro Dosage Discussion
  Informal; addresses some common questions.
• The Use of Nutmeg as a Psychotropic Agent by Andrew Weil
  A wealth of information about nutmeg, written while Weil was at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA.
• Native hallucinogenic drugs piptadenias (Anadenanthera) by Granier-Doyeux
  An informative article on Yopo snuff (cohoba, curupa, vilca, coboba)
• The Plant Kingdom and Hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes
  A wonderfully written book by the Father of Ethnobotany
• Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pastora
  Ethnopharmacology of Ska Maria Pastora from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology 7
• "Vine of the Soul" Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca, yage) usage, habitat, effects
  The entire B. caapi section from 'Food of the Gods' by Schultes & Hofman
• Teonanácatl and Ololiuqui, two ancient magic drugs of Mexico by Dr. Phil. Dr. Pharm. Albert HOFMANN
  Article discussing ethnobotany, paramedical use, and psychiatry with Psilocybe mushrooms and Ipomoea

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Contacts and URLs:

• African Ethnobotanicals (homepage, more info)
  Information on Iboga and other sacred plants of Africa
• Alkemists Pharmaceuticals (homepage, more info)
  "An independent contract laboratory dedicated to: Natural Product Consulting, Quality Control, Research & Development Manufacturing"
  • HPTLC profile of Salvia divinorum leaf
    Compares the chemical constituents of two different clones. (related items...)
  • Interactive Salvia Divinorum
    micrographs of the leaf at various magnifications (related items...)
• Allies
  Along with BPC, the other spinoff from "...Of the Jungle", specializing in live plants and seeds.
• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases (homepage, more info)
  Database of chemicals found in plants
• Ethnobotany Garden (homepage, more info)
  • Tobacco: A cross-cultural comparison (related items...)
• International BioPark Foundation (homepage, more info)
  • Chacruna
    Info on the botany and biochemistry of Psychotria species (related items...)
• Kava Kauai (homepage, more info)
  Hawaiian supplier of kava and Salvia divinorum
• King's American Dispensatory (homepage, more info)
  Excellent reference for plants and preparations
• Klaus Pages (homepage, more info)
  Historical Snapshot
  • Visionary Cactus Guide
    Excellent guide to medicinal, visionary, and sacred cacti. (related items...)
• Knehnav's Homepage (homepage, more info)
  • Blooming peyote (related items...)
  • Cacti pictures (related items...)
  • Poppies
    Images of scored pods. (related items...)
• Mulga's Pages (homepage, more info)
  Information on Australian entheogenic plants
• Peyote Coyote's Visionary Cacti Site (homepage, more info)
  Taxonomy and information on many cacti of ethnobotanical interest
• poppies.org (homepage, more info)
  Web portal and forums devoted to poppies. Home of the Somni-Forum
• Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center (homepage, more info)
  The authoritative Salvia site, maintained by salvinorin pioneer Daniel Siebert.
• Wildflowers of Heaven (homepage, more info)
  Sells exotic cacti and other ethnobotanical species
• Xenopharmacophilia (homepage, more info)
  • The Necessary Entheogen Explorer Files (related items...)
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • The Botany of Salvia divinorum (Labiatiae)
    SIDA (1993) 15: 349-366, HTML Version (related items...)

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