_ _ _ _ | |__ ___ | |_ __ _ _ __ (_) ___ __ _| | | '_ \ / _ \| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ __/ _` | | | |_) | (_) | || (_| | | | | | (_| (_| | | |_.__/ \___/ \__\__,_|_| |_|_|\___\__,_|_| _ _ (_) ___ _ _ _ __ _ __ __ _| | | |/ _ \| | | | '__| '_ \ / _` | | | | (_) | |_| | | | | | | (_| | | _/ |\___/ \__,_|_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |__/ <> _____| ____<> / <> / <> <> <>|<> <> ____/ <> \|/ <> \ <> / _________________________________ \ <>| /<> <>|<> | | | <> |/<> _____\|/<> | O O o O O o | . . . . . O | <>\ |<> / <> | o o o o o o | . . . . . | \| <> | | O O o o | . . . . . . | | | | o o o o o o | | \-------/ \-------/ | o o o o o o o o | o o o o o | \ / \ / |_________________________________| \___/ \___/ // / / / / / / / | | | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ /o / / / / / / / | | | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \-------------------------------------/ ===================================== Some interesting botanical curiosities for you to check out... CODARIOCALYX MOTORIUS aka Desmodyum Gyrans aka Telegraph Plant This is a plant that moves to sunlight and, more impressively,to sound. It starts to move when it is exposed to high pitched sounds! How cool is it to have these in your studio or next to your hifi stereo system. It particularly likes pinkish noisey flute sounds from lets say, a Korg M20. The real freaky thing is that you can sort of train it. The more you expose it to the right sounds from a young age, the more it will 'dance'. Its an easy to grow plant, indoors it just needs some warmth and light. Above 22 degrees celcius and some sun. When they start to grow it will take a few weeks before they are big enough to 'dance', a few inches at least. They can grow up to a few feet! You can order seeds easily online. They like to be in a bunch because even more bizzarly, they learn and communicate with each other and will make more impressive 'dancing moves' when together (for real!). How this is exactly done is not known but its best to grow a couple of them. It also has some DMT in it but don't eat it because that stuff doesn't work like that. SILYBUM MARIANUM aka Milk Thistle A herb that grows pretty much everywhere. You can eat it as a sort of Spinach like vegetable, raw, cooked or roasted, in salads etc. Little research or information is known about its psychoactive effects, but it certainly has some. Make some tea of it, though it doesn't really taste that nice. When you drink this it will feel like you have giant ball of air in your head, dozy floating around, maybe a bit extra giggly... spaced out. Not really pleasant in a recreational way, but also not really horrible. Good to fall asleep to, apparently its healthy for your liver. So if you are an alcoholic better check it out. Mix with Verbena, Mint or something for extra effect. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOACTIVE PLANTS A most excellent guide to psychoactive plants and mushrooms is 'The Encyclopia of Psycho Active plants' written by Christian Ratsch. Clocking in with almost 3000 pages of in depth information including anthropoligical signifigance, history, effects, dosage and much more. An absolute must have in any psychonauts library! It is available as a hard copy but quite expensive (100$+ or so!) but the e-book is freely available at archive.org here: https://archive.org/download/TheEncyclopediaOfPsychoactivePlants