The Plants, Fungi & Natural Compounds category explores the remarkable diversity of psychoactive fungi, plants, cacti, and naturally occurring compounds studied throughout history and modern science. From mushroom biology and fungal ecology to ethnobotany, biodiversity, botanical evolution, and natural product chemistry, these articles examine how nature produces complex molecules that continue to inspire scientific research across biology, chemistry, ecology, and pharmacology.
Exploring One of Nature’s Most Remarkable Groups of Fungi Psilocybin mushrooms represent one of the most extensively studied groups of fungi within modern mycology and natural product research. Distributed across…