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Erythroxylum vaccinifolium is a flowering shrub from Brazil, native to the cerrado and Atlantic forest regions. It is grown mainly for its bark, which is used to make the herbal infusion catuaba.
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.
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