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It is illegal to collect seeds or any plant material without a permit from within any national park but imo especially the Daintree River National park. The Daintree, like most of the rainforest in fnq has the highest protection level possible: world heritage listing. Fines are big if you get caught, but moreover this is a very rare species with fragile populations so removing samples without good cause is a pretty shit thing to do imo. A small sample for breeding purposes maybe an exception (the ranger wouldn't consider it though!), but if it is merely for the purpose of the psychonaut then with something as rare as Idiospermum, NO!

I stumbled over an interesting description of a Flindersia spp. in the Hyland et al. Key to Australian Rainforest Plants. Under natural history notes for the tree Flindersia bourjotiana. It says: "The bark of most Flindersia spp. Contains compounds of considerable chemical interest. This observation was imprinted on the author’s mind by a story told to him by some aboriginal forestry workers in the Kuranda area. The story goes something like this: “We found the sugar bag (native bee hive) and cut it out of the tree it was in. Rather than put it on the ground and get it contaminated with dirt and pebbles, we stripped the bark off a Silver Ash (Flindersia bourjotiana) and placed the sugar bag on the clean, inner surface of the freshly stripped bark. Later on when we had eaten the sugar bag we could see fairies floating through the rainforest.” Whether the hallucinations were induced by the exudates from the F. bourjotiana or from components of the sugar bag or from some completely unrelated source will never be know with certainty." Anyone know of any other in vivo tests or more on effects?

Very interesting, thanks for the replies! I have found mature individuals quite hard to find in the rainforest, I think mostly due to the targeting of this species during selective logging times. My search is continuing however...

Damm man, anyone hungry?! Just reading this post is giving me a major case of the munchies... and im not even stoned

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I was a member around the turn of the century (ohh those were the days), but now I seem to be wasteing more time on these forums

... the sporeworks p.cub amazonian strain... you have...

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...si&img=1209 I found these today on horse poo in fnq, any ideas? Are still fresh but no obvious blueing, more a grey/purple colouring with age... spore print coming... btw, rains up here have caused a major pop-up-athon of fungi... get out there locals!

Yeah seriously, works! It also cures the flu, the common cold and many more... well, atleast for the next 6 hrs

no idea, was in a very diverse region, probably one of the most in Australia... i'm sure someone out there would know though

wow most influential psychoactive plant. Shit, just one, that's tough!

I took this photo: http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...si&img=1249 ... of a glow in the dark fungi in the Atherton tablelands last week. It is about 1 cm tall, white in daylight, and the gap glow looked light green in the night... very cool

yeah, neighbour came home the other day with a big bag of P.cyan's .. and considering who much rain has fallen (holy shit loads!!!!!) there are plenty more around the corner

thanks!!

I saw Pearl Jam up here in my tree, yeah newspapers matter not to me, yeah no more crowbars to my head, yeah i'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah wave to all my friends, yeah they don't seem to notice me, no all their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh sidewalk cigarettes and scenes, (tem-pted) up here so high i start to shake up here so high the sky i scrape i'm so high i hold just one breath here within my chest just like innocence

They may be piss easy to grow, but i think you will need to give them lots of root space to get them to flower and fruit. Anyone have any experience in harvesting seed from plants grown in potts? Either way, make sure you consume all seed!!!! they are a nasty weed where I come from

... and had on my B. caapi... my plant seems to be healthy, old post has the spp name... is quite common in pots, dont think to be detrimental

Note how they are only pushing it for the Sydney bdo... Melbourne is far more multicultural... but maybe there are more people in Sydney that live with the false idea that they live in a country that is not only theirs, but also that it and they where they come from and particularly their town (which is a shit hole imo) is superior to the rest of the world... hmmm bloody white bred shit. (insert stirring shit up tone ) ...and I live in north Queensland... ha!

I use a mix that has no added fertiliser for my natives, and if needed I add a native specific (low P) slow release later. Probably though, most potting mixes would be fine, except for, as is mentioned above, plants such as those in the proteaceae family. If your making your own, maybe just add less compost than you normally would for drought tolerant plants. Avoid mushroom compost.

I would say they should eat them all if they are looking for a reasonably strong experience! Shroomytoonos' idea that little ones are possibly 1/3 stronger than the big ones is probably accurate, which gives you, no i mean them, a dose of 5.3gms of big ones... mmmm sounds like fun

After returning from my holidays I found these little yellow wonders sticking out of my B. caapi pot. http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...si&img=1165 http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/inde...si&img=1164 Are they good, bad? In terms of the happyness of my caapi? Common? symbiosis? The plant is more or less healthy, although was abused a little last dry season.

I love it, looks great and is a work of art! I have one of the long head mushroom figures of Tassili tattooed on my lower leg, which came out well and was well drawn. It is also a good conversation piece.