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RiversOFT

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Looking for Psychotria viridis
« on: June 10, 2020, 08:56:10 PM »
Anyone have Psychotria viridis for sale ?
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Dimitry Fisher

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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2020, 12:05:49 PM »
Top Tropicals used to have it, check with them.

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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2020, 07:00:35 PM »
looking for a rooted plant or leaves?

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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2020, 07:50:33 PM »


Be aware that much of the P. viridis for sale is actually P. alba/carthaginensis, even from reliable vendors. There was a lot of confusion about this a few years back. Some people are still confused. Differentiating true viridis is tricky but not impossible. I can provide details if requested.


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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2020, 09:07:12 PM »
good point monkeyfish-

I have some seed grown plants from sacredsucculents.com and many varieties from a reliable german vendor-

would you be able to provide the information on differentiating?

I have recently planted alba, alba x viridis, and viridis seeds from another vendor but you never know

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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2020, 01:01:49 AM »


Last I heard there was still disagreement whether alba and carthaginensis were separate species or just one with some variation.

Alba means white, and the flower is cream color to pale yellow, viridis means green, and the flower has a distinctively greenish cast, with the two plants side by side it should be obvious which is which, otherwise a subtle difference perhaps.


Tiny thorn-like projections under the leaf along the midrib is positive ID for Viridis, but these espinas are often lacking.


Another subtle difference, the leaf margins of Alba are quite wavy, the leaf margins of Viridis tent to be mostly flat with maybe a few waves.

There is also a morphological difference in the stipule, exactly what escapes me at the moment, but the most telling difference imo is the petiole, on Alba it is much more pronounced. See:

https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/ayahuasca_apa/aya_gallery_psychotria_viridis.shtml


There is some free reading at the site by Trout and others, iyi. 

There was also an interesting video I had, I'll see if I can find that.



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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2020, 09:50:41 AM »
here are some pictures of the plants monkey fish








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Re: Looking for Psychotria viridis
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2020, 10:29:07 PM »
pic is not viridis.