📖 For centuries, Lorvão (Penacova) was the Portuguese capital of #toothpicks.
As the authors recount in this article, tradition of handmade white willow toothpicks began in the Monastery of Lorvão during the 17th century. From the monastery, the craft extended to the local population.
The paper provides an historical overview and shows how the famous and award-winning toothpicks are made.
Renowned Huachiperi/Matsigenka shaman Alberto Manqueriapa proudly shows off two cultivated varieties of hayapa (Brugmansia suaveolens), the unrivaled master plant in both Matsigenka and especially Huachiperi shamanism and herbal healing.
For more on this powerful plant see my post "The Path of Day and Night":
Alright, let's see how many Plant Scientists/Botanists we can reach here in the Fediverse.
Reply to this tweet with an introduction of yourself, what first attracted you to plants, and what you work on now. And boost this toot! #Planticipation#Botany#PlantScience
@ml and what brought me to mushrooms was an eastern European girlfriend, of course! I tell the story in the special "Mushroom Issue" of Economic Botany published on the 50th anniversary of Valentina Pavlova and Gordon Wasson's ground breaking ethnomycological survey 'Russia, Mushrooms and History' who shared a similar mushroom honeymoon
"What is missing for me in modern ethnobotany are the voices, the anecdotes, all the stuff which is discarded when making the final raw matrix to be deposited in a repository as a spreadsheet"
--From a new article by Łukasz Łuczaj on the future of #ethnobotany