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Quararibea funebris is a tree of the Malvaceae family native to Mexico and Central America, known for its fragrant flowers used to flavor the traditional chocolate-maize drink tejate. Grow it as a warm, wet-tropical tree; it is not a common houseplant.
Quararibea funebris has common names including huyu (Maya), flor de cacao, madre de cacao, coco mama, swizzle stick tree, cacahuaxochitl or cacaoxochitl, (Nahuatl = chocolate flower) rosa de cacao, rosita de cacao, tepecacao, funeral tree, flor de tejate and tejate. It is a tree native to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
This plant is used as a medicinal plant, and the flowers as one of the essential ingredients in the traditional chocolate-maize drink known as tejate. The twigs also have some of the distinctive flavour and are used for mixing and frothing tejate while preparing it. Quararibea fieldii and Quararibea guatemalteca flowers and twigs were reported as used in the same manner but these species are now regarded as synonyms of Q. funebris subsp. funebris. There are two recognised subspecies: Q. funebris subsp. funebris and Q.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quararibea funebris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
