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They warn that the fast-paced decline of those animals in many forests today poses a serious threat for these unique plant species. Where’s a gomphothere when you need one? Very good observations here, Josh. P.S….I love those osage oranges; really marvelous trees and I’d always wondered how their fruit was part of it strategy for [...]

He spent over a year at a time in the rainforest finding plant species new to science, traveling solo with minimal supplies, and joining native people in religious ceremonies involving psychoreactive drugs. As Davis remarks, the Kof indians are the masters, the patrons of ecstatic intoxication. Schultes, born in 1915, was a labcoat-wearing scientist, an [...]