Episode Transcript: #2347 - Paul Stamets
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Good to see you, Joe.
What's happening? How you doing? Book number eight, huh?
Book number eight, yeah.
Who would have known? There's so many books to be written on mushrooms.
Well, this is state-of-the-art taxonomy.
Silicide mushrooms are a natural habitat.
It covers 60 species all over the world.
But it also shows not only historical use, which people are surprised.
They've been used in India, in Europe, in South Africa.
A new species was just found, Silasubimiluti.
But the Basuthu and the Basuthu province have been using it, obviously, for hundreds of years.
We know this because they have songs.
So it's really interesting when indigenous people are using silicide mushrooms and scientists.
Quote, discover them.
Give them a Latin binomial.