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Probably flowering in the wet. Without chloroplasts, you can see right inside the cells when they are wet!

Don't pull all the seats out, if you rip slits in them you can put pots in the slits and the seat foam will keep them warm!

My favorite weird plants are saprophytes, but specifically Monotropa uniflora. Saprophytes don't photosynthesize, they eat! In this case the plant is hosted by mycorrhizal fungi that are hosted by trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora

I think in excess of $200 would have covered this years event wt. Ronny didn't want to push the price there because he loves everyone too much

Sugar water is sprayed onto buds so they shape and then retain a "block" form when being compressed and transported from my understanding, has nothing to do with weight. I've definitely seen a few buds with one "front" sprayed and the other "front" looking normal. Can confirm the gravox business, seen it down here as well and heard about it from others. I reckon "the go" is mostly gangsters running weed like any other business, having their profit margins squeezed by police or competition so they try to make up the difference. Everyone's willing to pass the buck so long as it doesn't stop with them. Never let it stop with you, if you don't like the buck pass the buck back!

As far as I know that is the only legitimate reason to get vasopressin in Aus. Surprised to hear your second comment since a few of your posts refer to the adrenergic/GABA play and their effect on vasopressin levels.

How about the new Prodigy album? I love it, to me it sounds very much like their old stuff but nobody else seems to like it or even know about it?

Just found this while looking for another paper: Secondary Metabolites from Three Florida Sponges with Antidepressant Activity Anna J. Kochanowska†, Karumanchi V. Rao†, Suzanne Childress‡, Abir El-Alfy‡, Rae R. Matsumoto‡, Michelle Kelly§, Gina S. Stewart, Kenneth J. Sufka‡ and Mark T. Hamann*†‡ Departments of Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology, and Psychology and the National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, and the National Center for Aquatic Biodiversity and Biosecurity, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, New Zealand EDIT: Forgot to mention, there are already 3 or 4 threads on the topic of psychoactive marine life but since this is specifically on aquatic plants it could be a good place for a new thread on the topic. PS: anyone wanting to read the above paper in full can search for the species name listed above in this forum, the paper has been uploaded by an old member ;)

Hehe I dunno if you caught Michael Bocks talk at the mini EGA or not, but from my understanding, the "splitters" are about to have a field day with the genus Psilocybe.

Prime candidates would be China or India, EG.

I want some ever since reading mesqs first post on the issue years ago. Think it would be a great tool to unlock repressed/suppressed childhood memories.

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Sorry, I must have mistyped that you misinterpreted me. What I meant was each tribe only companion plants one sort of bean with their corn even though they grow other beans. It does differ between tribes largely depending on the locale.

Alright, I'm really not sure what we are arguing about? I never claimed all nitrogen fixing plants are good companion plants? Just provided an observation that my caapi plants were happier near NFT than away from them. Why would a nitrogen fixing tree would need to be mulched to release nitrogen into the soil? Bacteria don't live forever and I have observed many times nodules to recede, vanish, move etc especially on Mimosa in Winter. I remember fertilising my caapi precisely once in 3 years and yet it was a huge green machine. As for your request for me to provide evidence of a biological phenom as proof of reasoning for a millennia old agriculture technique, don't you think that's a bit much? I do know many Native American tribes grew more than one kind of climbing bean, but generally only companion planted one kind, so the pole shape of the corn is obviously not the only reason.

Err right, so Native Americans have been planting pole beans and corn directly next to each other for absolutely no reason since prehistory.

Confirm your suspicions, see Trouts notes on Desmodium genus page 13: http://trout.yage.net/sc/D2_2004_Trout.pdf All tryptamine references above are from Ghosal, take of that what you will. Not sure the plant is really dancing, it might just appear that way: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codariocalyx_motorius Codariocalyx motorius is the currently accepted binomial name for this plant.

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Should be able to make this, if someone can hook up a lift to/from the camp?

Hi WoodDragon, from my own experiences you might be starting too early, best to wait for the end of Summer as I always had trouble keeping them from going into dormancy during hot Sydney summers. If you can get them up and running into the tail of Summer by the end of the next Winter they will have nice established roots which will allow them to go into and revive from dormancy for many years to come! tantra, I heard some Mandragora take up to 7 years before they will set fruit! No personal experience, but as far as I know since the Solanales are generally self-fertile you should be able to hand pollinate?

Interesting thoughts in the original post tantra. Several species of Calea seem to contain sesquiterpene lactones (same class of lactones as found in kava) and there is reported use as anti-inflammatory: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...fe2af8f9e497274 (Click above to obtain full text PDF) Sesquiterpene lactones of Calea zacatechichi and C. urticifolia*1 Werner Herz and Narendra Kumar Department of Chemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, U.S.A. These have obviously not been tested directly for analgesia yet! But check out this paper also: http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/wps/wpsjour...mmatoryActi.pdf Antiinflammatory Activity of the Aqueous Extract of Calea zacatechichi H. VENEGAS-FLORES, D. SEGURA-COBOS & B. VÁZQUEZ-CRUZ* Laboratorio de Farmacología, División de Investigación y Postgrado Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida de los Barrios s/n, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, México C.P. 54090, México As usual tantra, you seem to be beating the science by a few years, so we will have to wait for the paper to confirm your findings EDIT: To add links.

incognito can you comment on how you feel now after continued use? I am very interested in these herbs again after hearing that Kilindi guy talk at EGA. This is really a great thread, there is traditional use info, ingestion and cultivation ancedotes, etc. Might hit you up with an order on payday, T.

Well there doesn't appear to be a Dinosperma thread anywhere so I will add info for Dinosperma here. http://d.wanfangdata.com.cn/NSTLQK_NSTL_QK6120674.aspx Analysis/Composition-The Leaf Oils of Dinosperma erythrococca and D. stipitata (Rutaceae) JJ Brophy, RJ Goldsack, PI Forster - Journal of Essential Oil Research, 2002 - Wheaton, IL: Allured Pub. Corp., c1989- http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np9705569 Novel and Insecticidal Isobutylamides from Dinosperma erythrococca Zahid Latif,† Thomas G. Hartley,‡ Martin J. Rice,§ Roger D. Waigh, and Peter G. Waterman* Phytochemistry Research Laboratories, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, George St., Glasgow G1 1XW, Scotland, U.K. However lofty86, aren't you actually talking about/looking for the plant Acmella oleracea (old synonym which most know it by as Spilanthes acmella) which more often holds the common name of Tingle Tongue/Tooth-ache plant? That is the issue with common names so we should stick to binomials (although in this case both plants seem to share some isobutylamides I would still stick to Acmella). http://www.ijp-online.com/article.asp?issn...kraborty;type=0 Preliminary studies on antiinflammatory and analgesic activities of Spilanthes acmella in experimental animal models A Chakraborty, R KB Devi, S Rita, Kh Sharatchandra, Th I Singh Department of Pharmacology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Lamphelpat, Imphal - 795 004, India Which will definitely help with your tooth-ache (that's actually why they call Acemella the tooth-ache plant). EDIT: To add link for above paper

I think there is still lots of research to do on companion planting of ethnos! It is a very interesting area. How did people realise that borage and strawberries like to be planted together? Or peas and corn? Had some great discussions with various people at EGA about their companion planting efforts. Here is a list of some example food companion plants http://www.companionplanting.net/ListofCompanionPlants.html It would be great if we could compile a similar list for ethnos! For example when living in Sydney I discovered my very hungry B. caapi plants loved living near nitrogen fixing Fabacea like certain Mimosa and Acacia species! I will add an obvious one: just love to get some old pots, stab some extra big holes in them, fill with sandy soil and plant in sections of Acorus and Bacopa and then stick in a big water filled tub! Nothing better than chewing a fresh bit of Bacopa on the way to work in the morning!

I would consider this plant as medicinally interchangeable with other Salvia species. From the Zapotec ethnobotany page: guìzh-mîrt (Salvia microphylla, mirto) used in concert with a variety of other mostly introduced herbs to treat “cold” conditions, particularly post-partum hemorrhaging EDIT: Forgot link: http://faculty.washington.edu/hunn/zapotec/z2.html EDIT2: Also mentioned in this paper but not with any usage data. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v81n4/08.pdf Common name in Brazil: melhoral, googling this name with some poor translations indicate some possible use as abortifacient.

Sieberts original paper is available for free: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/93/6/763 makes it plainly obvious that salvinorins are present in the fresh leaves (largely contained on the trichomes) at all 6 stages of growth. From my own research, I understand that the majority of traditional preparation took place using a wetted metate as T mentioned, with the resulting "juice" being consumed sublingually. Not too many people came to see T Munros talk at EGA, to me it was one of the best, we had a real live Salvia researcher in our midst and everyone was off busy telling each other "how it really is", much like this thread. Perhaps in the future instead of getting drunk and running amok on threads where you haven't bothered to check your facts or even provide your own experience we could all go for a bit of scientific rigor and actual content contribution? If you don't understand what I mean I suggest going back and reading this thread from the beginning.