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Alkaloids (16)
Mangrove Medicine: Can Natural Products Protect Keystone Species?
Why does DMT exist?
Silk roads to pop culture
Mystery of the Dancing Plant: Perhaps the Most Mystical Pea Plant since Jack’s Magic Beanstalk.
This Hiker’s Nightmare is the Medicine Cabinet of the Forest
Deadly Nightshade: Not So Deadly After All?
Vine and Dine- the Use of Banisteriopsis caapi in Shamanic Initiation
Ergot: Miracle Drug or Death Sentence?
Oregon Grape: The Cleansing Fruit of the Pacific Northwest
Wolfsbane: fictitous plant contains very real dangers
Peyote: Testament to the Power of Plants Over People
The Curare Plant: A Cure All, or Kill All?
Henbane: Witch’s Drug
Pacific Yew: Tree of Death or Tree of Life?…or Both?
Yarrow: The Healing Herb of Achilles
Herald to the Angels’ trumpets- Exploring the many faces of Brugmansia sauveolens
Flavonoids (2)
Looking Closer at Your Flower Bouquet: Salal, Immigrant Labor & the International Floral Industry
Delectable Black Gold: Wild Mountain Huckleberry
Non-protein amino acids (1)
Threatened Ephedra Species Enhances Biocultural Diversity In the Mojave
Phenolics (11)
The Suicide Tree
Why Tree Shrews Lick the Inside of Their Toilet
Evidence Confirms Health Benefits of an Ancient Chinese Sweetness!
What Do Beaver Butts And Vanilla Have In Common?
Turmeric: the Golden Guru
Wheat: The power to rise and collapse civilization
The True Cost of Finding The New “Superfood”
Sunflowers : Beautiful, oily, and versatile
The House Plant That Does It All
Amy G.’s Example Post
Plant Profile Demo
Terpenes (12)
Looking Closer at Your Flower Bouquet: Salal, Immigrant Labor & the International Floral Industry
I May Be a Delicate Flower, But I Can Still F**k You Up
Lemon Balm: Calming Herb You Need In Your Life
Chaste Tree: Mother Nature’s Menstruation Remedy
From Cradles to Coffins: Western Red Cedar, A Tree of Life
Tea Tree Oil: Nature’s Potent Antiseptic
Sunflowers : Beautiful, oily, and versatile
Thujone: Psychedelic, Potent Cancer Treatment, or Poison?
Take Back Your Uterus with this Psychedelic Herb of the Ancient World
Symbionts vs. Parasites
Pacific Yew: Tree of Death or Tree of Life?…or Both?
The Chemistry Behind Cannabis: Terpenes

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