LokStok

Same species, different cultivars. https://www.getkavafied.com/blogs/the-kavafied-times/know-your-kava-what-are-all-the-different-kava-cultivars

They like hot, dry and intense light when in the sun. The light shade description that is on Wiki (and copied everywhere) should more likely be read as light/shade, as in full light then full shade....as you would get living at the base of a cliff. Try damp stratifying the seeds for a month first.

Motherwort https://restorativemedicine.org/library/monographs/motherwort/

There is no such thing as sustainable harvest of Acacia rootbark.

https://rumble.com/embed/vnmga7/?pub=4

I think the other is Chinese Mugwort (A. argyi), the other 'Moxa' plant.

tube

looks like Leonotis leonurus. https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/leonotis_leonurus.htm check the second picture down.

pointers: -never buy powder, always whole bits of root then grind yourself. -sow your seeds anyway, whilst still looking for root sources. -contact https://theherbalist.worldsecuresystems.com/index , he grows his own, but may be reluctant to part with any non tinctured root. -if all else fails, why not whole root peices from India? Its the home of Ashwagandha after all.

whoa...glad i dropped in. Happy Birthday Torsten!!

Piper betle

they are drowning. get them out of that styro box & let them drain.

currently reading 'Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice' by another of Schulte's proteges, Mark Plotkin...interesting. Although his works are now widely considered to be at least partly fictional, the first three books by Carlos Castenada changed everything for me (way back then).