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coca

South American shrub belonging to the coca family, whose dried leaves are the source of the drug cocaine. It was used as a holy drug by the Andean Indians. (Erythroxylon coca, family Erythroxylaceae.)
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About Cocaine Cocaine is extracted from the plant Erythroxylon coca.
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Cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca tree, Erythroxylon coca in the plant family erythroxylaceae.
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A Cocaine comes from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush and was first isolated in 1859.
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