Erythoxylum coca

Cocaine Alkaloid Ophthalmic anaesthetic Erythoxylum coca (coca leaves)... 

Cocaine is extracted from coca leaves (Erythoxylum coca), which grows predominantly in South America and the Far East. Indigenous populations used coca leaves for medicinal and... 

Blum, M. S., Rivier, L. and Plowman, T. 1981. Fate of cocaine in the lymantriid Eloria noyesi, a predator of Erythoxylum coca. Phytochemistry 20, 2499-2500... 

Cocaine is a substance produced in the leaves of a shrubby bush that grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. This bush, known as Erythoxylum coca, grows wild in parts of South America and is cultivated in others. 

The prototype, and historically first, substance utilized to prevent or treat local pain was a South American folk medicine an infusion made from the leaves of the coca bush (cocaine plant), Erythoxylum coca and several other species. Coca is native to the uplands of South America, particularly in what is today Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Large-scale cultivation and production is now mainly in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia at elevations up to 6,000 feet. The alkaloidal content of coca leaves is 0.7-2.5%, the main... 

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