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6k of plants and no trippin’ ? Unpossible.
I could find you some on the list, but I would not recommend trying any.
I read my Rätsch and some Shulgin, and as a botanist, I have a healthy respect for most psychotropic substances. 10 out of 10, would not recommend.
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And apparently no pennyroyal, famed active ingredient of Benjamin Franklin’s recipe for dealing with an unwanted …“misfortune”:
“For this Misfortune, you must purge with Highland Flagg, (commonly called Bellyach Root) a Week before you expect to be out of Order; and repeat the same two Days after; the next Morning drink a Quarter of Pint of Pennyroyal Water, or Decoction, with 12 Drops of Spirits of Harts-horn, and as much again at Night, when you go to Bed. Continue this 9 Days running; and after resting 3 Days, go on with it for 9 more.”
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it says everything that men will clone a whole ass park full of carnivorous dinosaurs but not a single silphium plant
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Pennyroyal is a traditional abortifacient but also very hepatotoxic, so I would not recommend it for that anyway.
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This was my first thought and it is, in fact, unpossible on this site.They do avoid the ones a neophyte would target.
As a pharmacist, I can’t recommend any of them either, especially the one in my avatar. Avoid! Entheogens bad.
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You should probably give it a few months. It just stopped snowing.
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I checked and they don’t have either rat tail or monkey’s tail plants 
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A rather poor aggregator, at least for carnivorous plants. It missed many of the best nurseries. It did list one very good one, in fairness.
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I managed to stump it more than ten times in 15 minutes. Depressing. I had hopes…
ETA:
I was looking for Athyrium filix-femina ‘Frizelliae’ (Tatting Fern), Laburnum (Golden Chain Tree), and a buncha tropical Asian ladyslippers.
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No Mandragora officinarum either, aka mandrake.
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Pretty sure Nicotiana is legal, at least where I am. I have many in my garden (they’re good at repelling pests, and the flowers are very pretty) and bought them at a greenhouse.
No problem finding datura on the website, which is infinitely more toxic and dangerous (though also much easier to find in the wild where I live; note, their flowers are also very pretty, though the seed pods look like something from a horror movie).
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Hmm, no place sells Eriogonum tiehmii? Shame
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Back in the day, I used to use the RHS Plant Finder book to find where I could buy obscure plants. Obviously you can search suppliers on their website now, but they surprisingly still publish the physical book as well.
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Hats off to your profile image. Listening to an audiobook of Cosmos now. Seriously considered naming my son “Sagan” 
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Where are you abouts? I have the second one and could certainly recommend a nursery if you happen to be in Oregon.
Edit to add: only the syngonium came up from my lust and the only reason I haven’t purchased one already is that I’m at my limit for houseplants. My pothos upstairs is dying because my sister in law bought me a Christmas cactus. 
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Ah, I’m in Michigan, which is way colder and hotter.
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