Banisteriopsis caapi
Richard Evans Schultes' student, Tim Plowman, collected our B. caapi in Tarapoto Peru, from the garden of the renowned medicine man Elias Avila (1905-1979) in 1967. Dennis McKenna confirmed that this is the same clone that he and Terence McKenna had planted in Hawaii:
"Your specimen is almost certainly Plowman 6040, which I received through the Lyon Arboretum in 1976 and took to the Big Island top Botanical Dimensions ethnobotanical reserve for planting, where it thrives today and is enormous!" see image at bottom of page
In 1983 it was planted at Finca El Bejuco, in Sarapiquà Costa Rica
Our capacity to produce caapi biomass is effectively limitless,
because it grows vigorously in the forest and we have about 50 acres of forest
We estimate that as of October 2024 we can sustain production of 200 kg per month
That is Tom Ray in the white ska T-shirt
Earliest image of the B. caapi grow at Finca El Bejuco
on jacket cover of their book
note photo credit, lower right, "Photo: Tom Ray"
Earliest image of the B. caapi grow at Finca El Bejuco
Tom was
Wilson's teaching assistant and field assistant
Caapi grow February 12, 2021
Caapi grow February 12, 2021
Caapi grow August 9, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Caapi grow August 9, 2024
Caapi grow February 12, 2021
Caapi grow April 2, 2024
Caapi grow August 9, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Caapi grow October 29, 2024
Caapi grow October 29, 2024
Caapi grow October 29, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Caapi grow October 24, 2024
Harvesting caapi
This is a photo of our caapi clone at Botanical Dimensions in Hawaii, which was taken in November 2024. It is about the thickness of a human thigh.