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Boundary condition
Bufotenine also occurs in several species of Amanita - which gave rise to one of its alternative names, mappine (from A. mappa syn. A. citrina - the false death cap) - so it's not entirely surprising to find it in assocation with another fungally related species.PsilocybeChild said:Collema flaccidum purportedly contains bufotenin.
That one species that is reported as like a psychedelic that gets icelanders high is also available from a site or two online.
Looking at that Collema flaccidum, there was a huge patch of something very similar outside the gates of a place where I used to work! (May be it would be fruitful to go back and have a look...)
Do we have an ID on that Icelandic species? Otherwise it still seems a bit anecdotal and I wouldn't be surprised to find it turns out to be an elaborate Icelandic prank :lol: The article suggests that it is Parmotrema menyamyaense although subsequent follow-up still leaves this somewhat unclear to me: "the mid slopes of the Eastern Himalayas" are claimed by some to be its endemic region, rather than the Arctic. What am I missing? (A higher degree in biochemical lichenology, by the looks of it!)
Psychoactive Lichens
I've come in contact with THREE lichens and a variety of other psychoactive plants. These are in the high NA arctic. I lived for 13 years there, and had a fascination with interviewing Elders. I don't know what these psychoactives are, but they bear remarkable similarity to tryptamines. Even...
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