Hello there! I'm looking to see if any fellow Icelanders or possibly others who are in the know could help me out! I'm looking to preform an extraction and my main concern as of now is what plant I should use. I'm not familiar with the local botany.. have no idea which plants could contain respectable amounts of DMT! I'm quite certain such plants do exist here, since I have heard of folks successfully extracting. I wonder if anyone knows? Icelanders, help!

..i'm about the opposite of an icelander..but i do know you've got some cool trees there like Birtch, but no idea what things are in them..

the only known tryptamine plant in Iceland (so far) i can offer is
Phalaris arundinacea pictured below (which can be variable) in Iceland!

i am no icelander, but do you know if the grass genus phalaris grows near your area?

it withstands cold weather here in alaska, so i wouldn't be surprised if it does there.


unrelated: did you catch that nova special 'doomsday volcanoes'? pretty crazy stuff

apparently they could produce a significant amount of sulfuric acid aerosol.
it says they will erupt without warning..but that was at the end of their warning.


EDIT: nen beat me to it. also i did a cursory google for phalaris and iceland, and saw some results for phalaris aquatica pop up (they were translation pages though)

..hey, no race Parshvik..! good googling too..
hope you keeping warm, and good to know P. aquatica's there as it may be more reliable..

be great to hear of extraction on the 'Island at the Top of the World"..

..or is that Greenland?

i need to answer all the easy questions so the smart people don't have to waste their time

close enough

Both Phalaris arundinacea and Phalaris aquatica are a pretty common sight here in Iceland.

Alright!! Great guys, thank you so much for your time and inputs. Phalaris seems to be a sort of reed grass.. I wonder, Andmoreagain, are you familiar with Seltjarnarnes? I used to live there for some time, and it would be very likely that there is some of that sort of grass growing close to the shoreline there.. I think I will have to pay it a visit soon.

I understand this is a rather old thread, but I have some information on this rare topic that I believe could be helpful for anyone looking for it. As this is my first post, I would like to apologies in advance for anything I might be doing wrong. We have many phalaris types, and as far as i'm aware that is the only plants the have things like DMT. I am most likely wrong, though. Our culture does not have a history of DMT use, because the country is rather ethnobotanically baren. There are some plants and fungus that I have been made aware of by a certain type of individual that typically contain that knowlege. We have species of Juncus (rushes) that contain phenanthrene and terpenoids. We also have amanitas (some toxic, some useful) and a few psilocybe as well. The mushrooms have much more of a history of use. The amanitas were dried so that they could be soaked in water or eaten dry. The psilocybe were eaten in bundles. We do not have much dmt, but we have other things. I'm sorry if this went off the topic.