Psychotria cv. – Superior Cultivars (plant)

Description

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 problems 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 at UWS/NICM in Sydney, funded by Herbalistics, leading to the discovery of a number of higher alkaloid cultivars. We are also publishing a paper on our findings regarding higher potency in younger leaves of Psychotria viridis and its hybrids, as opposed to older leaves.

Care and Cultivation of Psychotria Superior Cultivars

Check out our Psychotria cultivation guide here.

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