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  1. Delly

    Delly In Flower

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    What did the Incas call the 'divine plant'?
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Coca -- Erythroxylum coca
     
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    Tooty2shoes Hardy Maple

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    I got it, I got it :-D . It's the Coca plant. Thank you Incas as I love dark chocolate. Yummmmmy :-D
     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    You have your plants mixed together.

    Cocoa is chocolate
    Coca is cocaine
     
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    cherylad Countess of Cute-ification Plants Contributor

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    Well... depending on which Inca you talked too.... either one could have been divine! :D
     
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    Delly In Flower

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    finding the scientific name would be helpful in which one you are talking about!
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Erythroxylum coca is part of the plant family Erythroxylaceae - more commononly known as being the (coca)cocaine plant.
     
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    Jerry Sullivan Garden Experimenter Plants Contributor

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    Erythroxylum coca has been chewed by natives in the Eastern Andes for thousands of years. It was introduced to the Western Andes in the 6th century CE. The Inca saw the plant as coming from a divine origin and so it was used first by the Inca elite and nobility and as the empire declined by the general populous.

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    Pretty interesting information.

    Delly you are finding things for this quiz that I would never think of. Keep up the good work.
     
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    Thank you Carolyn I am trying to keep people interested...

    The answer for this quiz is : Erythroxylum coca
     
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