Keeper Trout

Keeper Trout (born October 1957), also known as Keeper of the Trout, is an American independent scholar in the area of psychedelics and psychedelic plants, especially cacti. He is variously described as an author, photographer, ethnobotanist, archivist, and conservationist. In 1993, Trout met Alexander and Ann Shulgin and others at a psychedelic conference and they encouraged him to start writing. and Mike Jay's Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic.

Selected publications Books and related Trout's Notes: A Simple Alkaloid Volatizer (1995/1998) Trout's Notes on Cultivation of Desmanthus for Rootbark Production (1995/2000) Trout's Notes: The Peyote Crisis & Some Suggestions (1995/1998/1999/2001) Trout's Notes on the Genus Desmodium (1996/2004) Trout's Notes on the Cultivation & Propagation of Cacti (1996/1999/2001) Trout's Notes: Summary of the Reported Occurrences of Mescaline (1997/1999/2001) Trout's Notes on Ayahuasca and Ayahuasca Alkaloids (1997/1998) (subsequently titled Ayahuasca: Alkaloids, Plants & Analogs (2004)) Trout's Notes: Tryptamines from Higher Plants (1997/1998) Trout's Notes on the Acacia Species Reported to Contain Tryptamines and/or Beta-Carbolines (1997/1998) Sacred Cacti and Some Selected Succulents: Botany, Chemistry, Cultivation and Utilization (later titled simply Sacred Cacti) (1997/2001/2006/2015) Trout's Notes: 5-Bromo- and 5,6-Dibromo-DMT Fact Sheet (1997) Trout's Notes on Cactus Chemistry by Species (1999/2013) Ayahuasca Analogues and Plant-Based Tryptamines: The Best of The Entheogen Review 1992–1999 (2000) Some Simple Tryptamines (2002/2007) Trout's Notes on Some Other Succulents (2004) (from Sacred Cacti) Trout's Notes Tryptamine Content of Arundo donax (2004) Desmanthus leptolobus (2004) Trout's Notes on San Pedro & Related Trichocereus Species (2005)

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