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Maybe some of you already ordered from this two companies and had problems with them. I communicated with both and, like other ethnobotanists, I told them they had the wrong species, but they didn't change it. First of all to KTBotanicals: They sell a plant as Piper methysticum (bestseller), which is actually Piper auritum. Look at their picture: The leaf veins of the plant on the picture are diverging from a central vein and overall it looks like Piper auritum. The leaves of Piper methysticum have all completely different leaf-veins. They are ALL diverging from the base of the leaf-blade and NOT from a central vein like Piper auritum. I asked them to change the name of the plant, but they were pigheaded, since Kava sells better than the easier to grow Piper auritum... To Kiwiboancaya: Months ago they sold many wrong species like Diplopterys cabrerana, Psychotria colorata, Ilex guayusa and Uncaria tomentosa, which were actually other species. I and many others wrote him to stop it or rename them, then his site was down... Now he is online again with a new assortment without the Diplopterys- and Iley guayusa- seed but still with the wrong identified Psychotria colorata (look at their picture of the plant, it has orange and not blue berries). From the Diplopterys cabrerana- plant he simply showed no picture... and the Erythroxylum coca- berries are way too round and not longitudinal, like the real Eryt. I'm also sceptical about their Calliandra angustifolia, because years ago I got some of this seeds and they were much smaller and darker... Their shipping- prices, he told me in the first mail (for seeds to europe) are also a joke and rip-off: 10 seeds ...$22 50 seeds ...$55 This looks very arbitrary and are out of proportion to the real shipping prices of a small envelope with seeds, which will never exceed the $5- mark...