“He eventually left to become curator of the herbarium at the California Academy in San Francisco and has become a renowned ethnobotanist.”
“In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies.”
“First recorded Western contact with ayahuasca was made in 1851 by Richard Spruce, the famous ethnobotanist from England.”