Psychotria sp.

Psychotria is a very large genus mostly from the tropics and subtropics. Some species are commonly sold online for use in ayahuasca type brews and here lies some confusion. First, almost everyone selling/trading one of the "common 3" don't actually know which species they have and pass on the plants with the name they received them as. This has caused a lot of issues with people selling, for example, P. alba as P. viridis.

The Psychotria species we are selling we have first hand tried to key out and identify from our own plants which have all flowered and produced fruits and seed. We are not taxonomists but we are fairly confident. We also try and provide pictures of each part of the plant species we are selling to allow others to also confirm on their own.

With regards to Psychotria alba, we treat this as a synonym of Psychotria carthagenensis. If you are looking for Psychotria alba on our website, please note they are one and the same as Psychotria carthagenensis, which is also tried and true in ayahuasca ceremony.