Lactuca virosa – Wild Lettuce, Lettuce Opium

Lactuca virosa – Wild Lettuce, Lettuce Opium

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Plants

FAMILY: Compositae GENUS: Lactuca SPECIES: Virosa COMMON NAMES: Bitter Lettuce, Wild Lettuce, Green Endive, Lettuce Opium, Laitue Vireuse (French), Latuga Velenosa (Italian), Prickly Lettuce Read more about Lactusa virosa, and purchase high quality leaves, resins,...

Amanita Notes

Amanita Notes

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Research

-By M. S. Smith Harvesting Amanita muscaria Depending on your climate Amanita muscaria will fruit from late Summer until Fall. In my own area of the upper Ohio River Valley the mushrooms will stop fruiting concurrent with the falling of the leaves. It is a beautiful...

Trichocereus pachanoi – San Pedro Cactus

Trichocereus pachanoi – San Pedro Cactus

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Plants

FAMILY: Cactaceae GENUS: Trichocereus SPECIES: Pachanoi COMMON NAMES: Achuma, Aguacolla, Huachuma, San Pedro Cactus The Trichocereus pachanoi cactus is by far one of the best grafting stocks among cacti, and is often the base stock seen in photographs, so you are...

Psilocybe cubensis – San Isidro

Psilocybe cubensis – San Isidro

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Plants

FAMILY: Agaricaceae: Strophariaceae GENUS: Psilocybe SPECIES: Cubensis COMMON NAMES: Magic Mushroom, Divine Dung Mushroom, Golden Cap, Champinon, Derrumbe de Estiercol de Vaca (Spanish, ‘abyss of the cow patties’), Dishitjolerraja (Mazatec, ‘divine...