Tag - Erythroxylum Coca

“And yet … it moves” … so claimed Galileo Galilei about the movement of the Earth around the Sun and the immobility of the star King, supporting the Copernican theory; he was accused of heresy, neglected by his contemporary society and he died alone, abandoned and nearly blind; however nowadays no one would ever contradict the confirmed hypothesis of Galileo.

Erythroxylum Coca is a shrub about one meter tall, with bright green thin oval shaped leaves, a creamy white flowers and reddish oval fruits similar to berries; it grows on the slopes of the Andes going down to the Amazon, between 600 and 2000 meters above sea level, where it is cultivated.

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