Black Rainbow

I've seen it on gumtree quite regularly.

Looking for interesting trade offers for this 1000mm x 750mm canvas covered in Psilocybe subaeruginosa spore prints. I think it would be a great work to develop further. I was thinking of melting oil pastels in the blank space but have never gotten around to it. Melting oil pastels is fun. These are two sister P. sub canvases. The first is finished but I plan to do more prints on the second.

The cactus community's love of monstrosa has me hoping that people can learn to better appreciate and revere bodily difference.

Yes please Gimli

I recently visited the ~16th century Aztec Xochipilli statue at The National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. They had a pretty detailed breakdown of the botanical imagery on the statue, with the museum noting the following as present; Asteraceae, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, Datura, Nicotiana, Philadelphus mexicana, Phillodendrum mexicanum, Plumeria rubra, Polianthes tuberosa, Pseudobombax, Tagetes erecta, Tagetes lucida, Tigridia pavonia and Turbina corymbosa. I was surprised to see no reference to Psilocybe spp. in the exhibit. As I understand it, Schultes is the primary authority on the identification of Psilocybe spp. on the statue. Is this the case? Does anyone know which publication he originally makes this identification in? Is there a perspective critical of Psilocybe spp. identification on the statue?

On a vaguely related note, Alan Rockefeller just posted this on Facebook: "Just got another batch of the Psilocybe of Mexico posters in. I took most of the photographs, a couple are by Alonso Cortés-Pérez and Cesar Kevin Perez did the graphic design work. All of the mushrooms have been deposited in a herbarium for scientific study, making this poster not only a work of art but also serious scholarship. The posters are 110 cm x 70 cm (43.3 by 27.5 inches), printed on glossy poster paper at 300 DPI, and cost $10.... Payment via PayPal, all proceeds go towards the study of mushrooms from Mexico. Autographed by Alonso and myself upon request." Alan is currently figuring out the postage cost to Australia for me. If you'd like a poster too PM me and we can save on shipping.

Yeah, me too. However, I did receive a reply to the most recent email! The exhibit curator suggested I get in contact with the biologist and restorers who worked on the exhibit, and has shared with me their contact details. Stay tuned...

Some additional names: bridgesii Lotusland peruvianus Anakie, Argentinensis, Colossus, Hahn, Lost Gentiles, Ohlone scopulicola Cordobensis, FR991 terscheckii Dawson’s Long Spine validus Fields, South Australia Short Spine (*the plant some people call tereschekii South Australian Short Spine is called validus South Australian Short Spine by others)

Some additional pachanoi you might want to include in the list: Huarazensis, KK339, Kimura’s Giant, MT03 Woody, MT06 Lupita, Saquarema, Zeus.

Is it okay to leave a crested wild loph and risk it dying, to avoid removing it from the wild? Can extinction be preferable to human intervention and life in a zoo? I think we might need an ethics committee run by plants.

I feel that in some contexts it must be ethical to take seeds/cuttings from endangered plants for conservation purposes. How can someone determine when/where this is appropriate?

I'd get in on that HD

I still haven't received any replies from the museum, so today I sent the following text as part of an email to employees listed on the museum website with relevant sounding titles: "Recientemente visité la exhibición del Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia en la que se muestra una estatua de la deidad Xochipilli. Me preguntaba si sería posible que me compartieran publicaciones o fuentes académicas en donde se identifique una subespecie de Dhalia en dicha estatua? También agradecería bastante, si es posible, la posibilidad de tener el contacto de los conservadores y botánicos encargados de la existencia de esta impresionante exhibición." My Spanish is very poor. An entheofriend produced the latter text from this: “I recently visited an exhibition featuring the Xochipilli statue at The National Museum of Anthropology. I was wondering if you could share with me any knowledge or publications supporting the identification of a Dhalia subspecies on this statue? I would really appreciate being put in contact with the curators and botanists who put this impressive interpretative display together." I also sent this email from an institutional address (the last one was vintage hotmail), so hopefully it gets more attention.

A shout out to SSDP Australia, too! They are doing hard work in bringing the many diverse pill testing stakeholders together. Let's not compete, let's collaborate.

If you guys can help me identify the relevant contacts from NPWS, state and local councils, identify any similar proposals (conservation projects?) that have been made, and/or identify relevant bureaucratic forms, I'd be happy to draft our communicacaians and let you guys have an edit before sending them off. It would be great to try and do this on the straight and narrow.

If we had to choose one place, what is most important area to protect from Acacia poachers? Let's consult with the local rangers in this area, make some signs and buy a camera. Hopefully someone else will chip in, but if not, I'd fund this project myself. Let's do it!

What are the specific areas we would be targeting? What would be the optimal number of cameras to cover all of these areas? If we can't raise the funds to purchase the amount of cameras needed, using signs and moving the cameras periodically would be a good way of keeping poachers on their toes. I also think signs would be an important addition to cameras. Sure they are a bit optimistic, but it would be great to stop someone before they stripped a tree, rather than punish them after.

Oh the temptation...

Yes please!

I'm in! Would this camera set up be the best option? Even signs saying there were cameras could have a strong impact.

Trichocereus do well here

Traditionally an aqueous extraction, although smoked bioassays report psychoactivity too.

I contacted Glaukus about the Psychotria plants, so let’s leave everything else here on offer and add a few things. Damn, it is looking like a pretty impressive list of goodies. This thread is banging! Next person gets... From me: 1 x small bag Piper methysticum root 1 x small bag Nuyutsia floribunda flower 1 x Psilocybe subaeruginosa spore print (for microscopy purposes) 1 x Psilocybe cyanescens spore print (for microscopy purposes) 2 x small bags of seeds that I think are Ipomea mislabeled as Argyreia From od101010: 15x blue hopi corn seeds 10x painted mountain corn seeds 10 x acacia cognata seeds 10x acacia acuminata seeds mix of un named chilli seeds From Bardo: 10 or so seeds of 6 different native acacia 10 or so Duboisia hopwoodii seeds : ) From Glaukus: Cactus seeds of my various 2018 oz tricho crosses From Dozer: Psychotria Carthayenensis seeds ~8 mimosa hostilis seeds 2 samples of rustica Vanilla toast snuff

Thanks, and good point Micromegas. There was another paragraph to the email that gives some context for my interest. Hopefully this paragraph will reduce perception of criticism. If I get no response I will have a friend send an email in Spanish from another address. In this second email I might avoid the Schultes/Wasson/Psilocybe references and just ask about the reasoning behind the Dahlia ssp ID.

Ok, so I’ve found two early papers published by Schultes relevant to Aztec use of psychoactive mushrooms. There doesn’t seem to be a copy of his dissertation online or available to purchase or borrow in print. Interestingly, neither of these papers refer to Psilocybe. They are both concerned with Panaeolus, with Schulte’s central argument being that the Aztec term "Teonanacatl" refers to "intoxicating mushrooms". I’ve sent the following in an email to the Museum; “I am interested in claims that Psilocybe aztecorum can be identified on this statue (Wasson, 1973; Schultes, Hoffman and Rätsch, 2001). The original publication of this botanical identification by Wasson (1973) is said to rely on observations by Schultes, and while Schultes does have experience researching Mexican ethnobotanical contexts, he does not appear to have published further detail regarding why he chooses to identify Psilocybe aztecorum on the Xochipilli statue. Psilocybe aztecorum was not acknowledged within the Xochipilli exhibit, in which the relevant motif was alternatively identified as a Dhalia ssp. I am wondering if the experts who composed the exhibit are critical of Wasson and Schulte’s identification? What is the reasoning for identifying this image as a Dhalia ssp?” Schultes, R. (1939) Plantae Mexicanae II The Identification of Teonanácatl a Narcotic Basidiomycete of the Aztecs, Botanical Museum Leaflets of Harvard University, 7(3), 37-54.pdf Schultes, R. (1940) Teonanacatl The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs, American Anthropologist, 42, 429-443.pdf