Erythroxylaceae
Coca Family
The Erythroxylaceae family (Coca Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Malpighiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 2 species. Its members are predominantly trees.
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Simple, alternate leaves marked by two faint parallel lines running either side of the midrib on shrubs and small trees; small flowers ripen into a small red drupe, while the leaves themselves store potent alkaloids.
Leaves throughout the genus Erythroxylum store cocaine and related tropane alkaloids at varying concentrations — chewed traditionally in the Andes in raw leaf form for mild stimulant effect long before any refined extraction existed.
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