My gut does not run without it
Tobacco leaves are not good eats. Don’t do it.
Let’s not forget thc, morphine, and psilocybin
Coca, cacao.
Psilocybin isn’t produced by plants but by fungi.
You’re right. Mushrooms aren’t plants. I stand corrected
Indeed they are not. They are their own category. Their cell structure is between plant cells and animal cells. A fungi cloud works similar to a brain. They are the things that make life possible. There are fungi living in our body which keeps us alive, we use them for bread, beer and penicillin among many other uses, they break down dead plants to create food for new plants, they divide food and communicate between trees, but they are themselves not plants. The largest living organism on earth is a fungi by the way.
I did not know that about the oldest living organism thing. where is this ancient fungi?
Largest, not oldest. In Oregon, between 2500 and 8500 years old. But fungi existed before plants did, 1.3 billion and plants 700 million years ago. So fungi are much older.
Gone, but there used to be giant fungus “trees” called prototaxites
there’s actually new research saying prototaxites may not have been fungi, but belonged to an entirely separate kingdom that’s now extinct. one of the defining characteristics of fungi are that their cell walls contain chitin, the same stuff that makes arthropod shells. prototaxites was found not to contain any chitin, while other ancient fungi of the same age as prototaxites already did, so it’s not a feature of fungi that was adapted later. prototaxites was also found to contain microscopic structures that don’t exist in any known fungus species
edit: damn, someone beat me to it while I was trying to find the details
Yeah… be sure to read the replies first next time
From your link.
In 2026, research comparing fossils of a prototaxite species with other eukaryotic fossils in the same location found it to be structurally and chemically distinct, suggesting that Prototaxites is not a fungus and instead belongs to an extinct, previously undescribed kingdom of eukaryotic life.[1]
Heh… learn something new every day
Edit: it sounds like it’s a hot topic
It is widely considered a fungus, but the debate is ongoing.
Relevant
I don’t think capsaicin is that much of an insecticide. AFAIK its primary purpose is to deter consumption by mammals since the seeds are more likely to survive if eaten by birds (who are immune to capsaicin).
Of course that makes it extra amusing that we’re specifically after this stuff.
Plants: evolves to produce chemical that causes pain from consumption
Humans: evolves to become masochistic
don’t forget cocaine and cannabinoids
Which both go well with cacao
You get high and eat your own poop?
You’re pretending to be a doctor. You should know what those words mean
Now, you are talking my language.
I watch the poopy show too
Hell yeah, give me all 3.
:absolutely drowning food in Sriracha: the spice must flow
Not me, drinking coffee, having some Lemon OG, and some nicotine.
