Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't - Erythroxylum gracilipes:The Mother of Coca

This is recorded in northern Panama. I wonder if that's where the Kallawaya community in Panama get coca.  They were probably descendents of those who cured the workers on the Panama canal of Malaria and other diseases. See this very long article The Kallawaya: Doctors of the Inka By Tracy L. Barnett and Hernán Vilchez also available in Spanish: Los Kallawaya: Los Médicos de los Inka. Maybe they're one of the resilient communities Vi Hart was talking about? See Julie Nolke Talking Movies With Her Friend.

Image source Wikipedia.

See https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:276848-2. I was told about coca growing right down on the border with Colombia but I couldn't find it. I suspect because I was looking for a smaller bush, not such a large tree!

I guess this might be the tree which the Kogi in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia chew. See this article in Systematic Biology, Volume 70, Issue 1, January 2021: The Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes.

The people who live in San Jose de Uchupiamonas in the Parque Nacional Madidi in Bolivia know about another similar Erythroxylum species they call warra warra. I never saw it, but they said it was fairly common.

He was in Chile before this:


See Arachnitis uniflora.

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