Psychedeic Lichen

[yepyepwoah]

Intersting if true

"Three decades later, the DNA of the lichen was finally analyzed, proving that it was indeed a new species. In 2014, a team of researchers led by Michaela Schmull studied the lichen ? also now known as Dictyonema huaorani ? and used a technique called liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to determine which chemical compounds existed in its tissues. The tests were positive to the presence of psilocybin, tryptamine, 5-meO-DMT, 5-MeOP (5-methoxytryptamine), 5-MEO-NMT and 5-MT."

https://www.acidmath.me/blogs/acidm...edelic-lichen-found-to-contain-psilocybin-dmt

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1639/0007-2745-117.4.386

https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_121460_novelhallucinogensfromeasterne1983/page/n1

 

[Xorkoth]

Cool, I'm gonna read those links.

 

[perpetualdawn]

This reminds me of something about psychedelic "rocks" in Iceland - actually it was the lichens on the rocks. Probably different spp?
Lichens are fascinating meta-organism colonies made of fungi+algae.

 

[pupnik]

rock on!

 

[perpetualdawn]

I'm lichen where this thread is going

 

[Xorkoth]

That's probably cuz you're a fungi.

 

[busted.produk]

I know its masochistic but damn, i love me some PUN-ishment....

 

[yepyepwoah]

this is not reddit! stop this pun shit nerds