Animals or vegetables? Between magic and get high

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https://doi.org/10.24310/enbio.17.188.2025.17869

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plants, sorcery, witchcraft, secondary metabolism, etymology

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Most of you can remember films where the preparation of a magic potion includes seemingly indigestible components such as snake's tongue, lion's tooth, hare's ear, cat's claw or dragon's tooth, but also dew and frost. However, they are not animal portions but plants with interesting metabolites for magic, sorcery, witchcraft and even medicine. Let's find out what some of them are, why they were called that way, the idomatic marks they have imprinted, and other unexpected anecdotes to avoid ending up stressed and overwhelmed in equal measure.

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2025-02-18 — Updated on 2025-02-19

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Claros Díaz, M. G. (2025). Animals or vegetables? Between magic and get high. Encuentros En La Biología, 17(188). https://doi.org/10.24310/enbio.17.188.2025.17869 (Original work published February 18, 2025)