Claviceps purpurea

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Claviceps purpurea is a fungus.

Pathogenicity[edit | edit source]

Claviceps purpurea infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant;

Alkaloids and LSD[edit | edit source]

Claviceps purpurea is also the source of medicinally important alkaloids called ergot alkoloids and of lysergic acid

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