Erythroxylum vaccinifolium
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| Species: | E. vacciniifolium
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| Erythroxylum vacciniifolium Mart. 1840
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Erythroxylum catuaba A.J.Silva ex Raym.-Hamet, 1936 | |
Erythroxylum vacciniifolium is a flowering plant species in the genus Erythroxylum.
It is used to prepare catuaba, an infusion used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian herbal medicine. It contains a class of tropane alkaloids called catuabines.
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