Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes (1915–2001) was an American botanist regarded as a founder of modern ethnobotany. Working from the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent years in the Amazon documenting the plants used by indigenous peoples, among them the ayahuasca admixtures and the DMT-bearing snuffs, and his surveys of plant hallucinogens shaped the literature of the field.

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