Elusive LSD Fungus Finally Discovered on Flower

Science Alert ^ | June 05, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Ping!..............

[Billthedrill]

So...it was you all along...

[SunkenCiv]

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[Skooz]

Groovy

[BenLurkin]

The bright elusive butterfly of fungus.

[pingman]

It was widely known back in the Haight-Ashbury flower power days of the ‘60s that morning glory seeds were a path to a trip.
I recall that it was a plot mechanism in one of Gilbert Sheldon’s comics about the “Furry Freak Brothers”.

[Red Badger]

Morning Glory Fields forever.................

[Alas Babylon!]

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
—Timothy Leary(’s dead).

No one is outside, looking in.

[Red Badger]

Just wait, Moring Glory Seeds will now be a ‘Controlled Substance’!....................

[Jolla]

LSD and Morning Glories, these are two of my favorite things.

[ifinnegan]

Interesting.

Hofmann of course studied the ergot fungus that grows on rye. He isolated and modified a lot of ergoloid compounds from it.

It makes since he’d realize the ergot compounds in morning glory seeds are most likely to come from a similar plant fungus, not the plant itself.

[algore]

They finally found some after looking for decades.

I will keep making mine in the bathtub.

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-oh, I’m having a Turtles flashback...

[Tom Tetroxide]

[Tom Tetroxide]

[Openurmind]

First on a flower... But pretty sure not the first on a plant. From what I understand Rye grain was the first known instances of Ergot.

[ifinnegan]

“ Just wait, Moring Glory Seeds will now be a ‘Controlled Substance’!....................”

They were.

They were sold with some sort of treatment to keep people from ingesting them.

[Honorary Serb]

New!

[T.B. Yoits]

...the ergot fungus that grows on rye.

Speculated as one of the causes of behaviors in Salem, Massachusetts that led to the witch trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claviceps_purpurea