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Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2

alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.

Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.

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Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor

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I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.

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