Erythroxylum australe

[seedplanter]

Getting more and more interested in growing this plant for biodiversity reasons. Any interesting facts?

[seedplanter]

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[darcy]

They do contain tropane alkaloids Jungleman, some of these are in Datura spp. like meteloidine and others like dihydroxytropacocaine and methylecgonidine occur in the roots.

Chewing leaves gives a bit of throat constriction but some others have smoked leaves and reckon it's alright

E. australe makes a good bonsai specimen!

[seedplanter]

Smoke? uuugh! Throat constriction doesn't sound that fun either.

[the germinator]

I heard E australe is useful to graft E novo/coca etc to in order to produce a more hardy plant. Dunno the validity of this, can someone please confirm or deny?

I spose that makes it a very useful ethnobotanical if this is true.

Hope it's true!!!