NEW PSYCHEDELIC LICHEN DISCOVERED!

[entheogenic-gnosis]

A new species of lichen has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, according to a recent paper published in The Bryologist. Researchers led by lead author Michaela Schmull have tentatively identified tryptamine, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT in the lichen!

New psychedelic species of lichen discovered: Dictyonema huaorani

An extremely rare species of lichen containing psilocybin and other hallucinogens was discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Its name is Dictyonema huaorani.

psychedelicfrontier.com

-EG

 

[steppa]

Nice find.

This should go in this thread.

 

[entheogenic-gnosis]

Dictyonema huaorani (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), a new lichenized basidiomycete from Amazonian Ecuador with presumed hallucinogenic properties

Dictyonema huaorani, a new species represented by a well-developed specimen found in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, is described in this paper. The material was collected during a Harvard ethnobotanical expedition in 1981 and originally determined by Mason E. Hale Jr. as belonging in the genus...

www.bioone.org

-EG

 

[endlessness]

Interesting paper.

It was mentioned in the other thread.

As I posted there, they did not use reference standards, they used retention time (and UV spectra?) with HPLC-UV. Also when testing with LC-MS they did NOT seem to detect psilocybin (but based on spectra found 5-MeO-DMT, 5-MeO-NMT and 5-MeO-Tryptamine), which makes me wonder how reliable those results are.

Anyways definitely interesting.

I'm attaching the full paper.

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Nice find.

This should go in this thread.

It already is!

Knarrkorven was quick off the mark...