https://ethnoagriculture.com/unveiling-the-healing-power-of-cryptolepis-sanguinolenta-traditional-wisdom-meets-modern-science/

Hello fellow botanists,

As part of my PhD research, I have the opportunity to explore lesser-known psychoactive plants, focusing on isolating secondary metabolites and investigating their mechanisms of action. I am working on a long list of plants with mainly only ethnobotanical documentation, and I'd love to hear your suggestions!

Are there any particular plants you're curious about in terms of the compounds they contain?

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Do boobie cacti or unicorn cacti contain any active alkaloids? Always around, ExitDry

I am wondering what the charge would be and how much jail time someone would get if arrested for having a single, very small coca tree in Florida, just curious. If sold, would the charges escalate? Do they weigh the plant,m to determine anything, or is it just a straight forward law?

I want to make sense of the forest. I mean if I knew what I’m looking at would be far more interesting that just calling them trees. Thanks

Hi all, I am notably not an ethnobotanist nor do I know much about the field beyond the very basic “plants can be used for food and medicine and there is a strong indigenous subtext” research that a quick google search can give. I am however writing a story where my main character is an ethnobotanist (fits nicely within the plot and character origins) and said character is being asked to do some questionably ethical testing on other characters while performing their own research - so! What would the most important and most interesting things be that I should know about and be able to include? The story takes place in a fictional universe so there aren’t really too many laws to abide by. Thanks!

Full story here https://herbspedia.org/what-happened-to-bouncing-bear-botanicals.html

What's your favorite ethnobotany book ,thesis, or dissertation. I'm especially interested in the relationship between indigenous people and plants in the Western United States. Thanks in advance!

[Import/export of plants is difficult here, as Switzerland is not part of the EU]

I know it is unlikely to find someone here as it is such a small country, but I thought it's worth a try 🤞

Looking for books on Native American herbal medicine. Thank you!

Hi, just reading through Rätchs Encyclopedia of psychoactive Plants, his source seems to be Balabanova. But there is no explanation how that can even be, coca doesn't grow in Africa and I don't think (m)any real scientists believe that Egypt had a trade rout with south America.

I just recently graduated from the University of Kent with my MSc in Ethnobotany... but I've heard that sadly the Department of Anthropology (that houses the program) is dissolving.

Here is a petition currently going around to hopefully safe the department and program, but it isn't looking good based on the responses my peers and I have been getting from the university. I loved the program and it is so sad to see that the only program in the English-speaking world is disappearing.

A friend of mine told me about oil pulling for dental health, and it got me thinking… Now that we’re discovering the absurd impact of the microbiome and dental health/oral microbiome on mental and physical health, how did early humans maintain a healthy oral microbiome? Of course, many factors affect dental health, but it would be very interesting to see how traditionally chewed plants like coca, tobacco, khat, etc… affect microbial composition and diversity in the oral microbiome. It seems like that would be a logical region for which the plant could evolve a symbiotic relationship if chewing is the primary method of consumption. Does this check out???

I’m an Oxford Biology student, and i’m trying to find a focus to write a botanical ethnography about a community or tradition somewhere.

Any ideas?

Is there any Ethnobotany canadian discord... or any interest in one?

I'm interested in examples of companion planting using native species for food systems and ecological restoration. The Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash together is an example from indigenous North America. Are there other examples (from any region) of native plants that can be grown together for mutual benefit? What about sea vegetables in coastal settings? Thank you!

Hi, I'm looking for Mods of Environmental Groups who would be interested in nominating a charity project for the Reddit CommunityFunds programme, to help build a Seed Vault for Ireland.

As a volunteer trustee of the charity, True Harvest Seeds, I'm not eligible to nominate it myself, but I posted the idea to the CommunityFunds subreddit and an Admin suggested I ask around for Mods to make the nomination.

This is a link to the Reddit post and Admins reply with link to the nomination form: https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityFunds/comments/17h8d6p/funding_for_irelands_seedbank/

If you're an Environmental Mod or know one who might be interested, please get in touch.

Hello! I am a senior anthropology student at California State University Northridge (CSUN). I am looking for a few people who use/have used peyote for their health and/or religious/spiritual purposes as my final paper for my anthropology seminar class on how and why people use peyote.

Your personal information will not be included in my paper and will be kept confidential. I will only ask basic demographic questions to use for my paper. If you are comfortable, I have an interview on Zoom and will use audio transcripts during our time to help me transcribe and remember our interview. You may have your video on or off. If you prefer not to use Zoom, I can either send the questions to you through email or as a message through Reddit.

If you would like to be interviewed, please send me a message.