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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Erythroxylon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Erythroxylon (Greek, red wood; true of some species). Written also Erythroxylum. Erythroxylaceae. Coca. A genus famous for the coca plant, the leaves of which are of vast importance in medicine, yielding cocaine, grown slightly in the extreme south of Florida and California, and rarely cultivated under glass in the North for its economic interest. Erythroxylon comprises about 90 species of shrubs or small trees widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries but most abundant in Trop. Amer.: Lvs. alternate, entire, often coriaceous: fls. small, whitish, on bracteolate pedicels, solitary or fascicled; sepals 5 (or 6); petals of same number, deciduous, appendaged on the inner face; stamens twice the number of petals, connate at base: fr. a 1-seeded drupe. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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