Erythroxylum vaccinifolium

Erythroxylum catuaba A.J.Silva ex Raym.-Hamet, 1936 Erythroxylum vaccinifolium 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, more specifically the alkaloids catuabine A, B and C.[1]

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