Catuaba Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Catuaba (Erythroxylum catuaba, a trade name without botanical standing; the small-tree catuaba of Bahia is Erythroxylum vacciniifolium) is a shrub or small tree of the coca family, Erythroxylaceae, native to the dry forests and caatinga of northeastern Brazil, chiefly Bahia and Minas Gerais. It grows 2 to 4 meters with slender branches, small, leathery, oval leaves 2 to 5 centimeters long, and tiny yellow-orange flowers followed by oblong red fruits; the name is also applied in Brazil to the unrelated big catuaba, Trichilia catigua, of the mahogany family. The bark is thin, grey-brown, and bitter. We extract the dried bark.