Coca

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Do not confuse Coca with:  Cacao/Cocoa (an entirely different herb)

 

Description

Coca is a shrub grown exclusively and usually illicitly for its Cocaine content.

 

Botanical Name

 Erythroxylon coca

 Coca is from the Coca (Erythroxylaceae) family.

 

Coca Contains these Substances

Alkaloids

 Cocaine is a constituent of Coca.

 

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