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| '''Cryptobotany''' is the study of plants which are not currently known to science, but which may have living examples. | |||
| In many old reports of each culture, there are reports of plants, used for healing purposes, whose species is unknown. | |||
| In China 2500 plants are described for medical uses, but cannot be identified as existing plants{{Fact|date=March 2007}} . There are also numerous rumours about ]s. | |||
| Writers and researchers in the United States have been amongst those to seek reported or legendary plants; the 1950s and 60s saw a number of books and articles on the pyschedelic or mystical plants of ]. ] sought the ] inducing sometimes called 'Yage', finding other novel plant specimens such as the ] bearing '']''. The ]s, ] and ], also entered the jungles of south america; taking the guidance of the local peoples to isolate species in use as ]. <ref> 1993 - ''True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise'' (HarperSanFrancisco 1st Ed) ISBN 0-06-250545-9 </ref> | |||
| The earlier books of ] detailed his search for various ] mushrooms and plants, an overlap with a western religious tradition was proposed in ]'s, ''The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross''. <ref>{{cite book | |||
| | last = Allegro | |||
| | first = John | |||
| | authorlink = John Allegro | |||
| | title = The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: The Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East | |||
| | publisher = Hodder & Stoughton Ltd | |||
| | date = 1970 | |||
| | pages = pp. 320 | |||
| | isbn = 0340128755 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Notes == | |||
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| == See also == | |||
| * ] | |||
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