A new species of lichen has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, according to a recent paper published in The Bryologist. Researchers led by lead author Michaela Schmull have tentatively identified tryptamine, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT in the lichen!

http://psychedelicfronti...hen-dictyonema-huaorani/

-EG

Nice find.

This should go in this thread.

http://www.bioone.org/do...1639/0007-2745-117.4.386

-EG

Interesting paper.

It was mentioned in the other thread.

As I posted there, they did not use reference standards, they used retention time (and UV spectra?) with HPLC-UV. Also when testing with LC-MS they did NOT seem to detect psilocybin (but based on spectra found 5-MeO-DMT, 5-MeO-NMT and 5-MeO-Tryptamine), which makes me wonder how reliable those results are.

Anyways definitely interesting.

I'm attaching the full paper.

It already is!

Knarrkorven was quick off the mark...