Psychotria cv. DW121 (plant/leaves for propagation)

Description

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Live leaves for propagation are now available and can be shipped at any time.

This is a preorder and the price includes postage to the usual areas we ship, ie. not to WA, TAS or internationally.  If you just order this product on its own, you will not be charged any extra shipping.

Psychotria viridis and Psychotria carthagenensis are used in the traditional psychoactive medicine Ayahuasca; a brew of Banisteriopsis caapi (occasionally alone but most often with Psychotria viridis or other DMT containing plants such as Diplopterys cabrerana) as the base and other plants are sometimes added, depending on the issues and conditions of the patient that need to be examined.

Psychotria viridis contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychoactive substance found across the plant kingdom in many family, genera and thousands of species (large numbers of Australian Acacia species and other natives contain DMT), often only as trace amounts.

For many years I have been breeding new cultivars of Psychotria, after first creating an interspecific hybrid between Psychotria viridis and Psychotria carthagenensis (cv. Nexus). These hybrids have now been legally analysed in a research project with UWS/NICM in Sydney, funded by Herbalistics, leading to the discovery of a number of higher alkaloid cultivars.

DW121 is the most potent hybrid to be selected at this stage, testing at 3.17% dimethyltryptamine.

Care and Cultivation of Psychotria Superior Cultivars

Check out our Psychotria cultivation guide here.

Psychotria cv. DW121 is a compact and very attractive shrub, growing to approximately 1m x 1m. It has performed very well in both the nursery and our garden. Like our other Psychotria spp., it has a good drought resilience, in that it can bounce back well from dry conditions, but does prefer a constantly moist and well drained soil. Part to full shade position.

1 plant or 5 leaves for propagation