Cocaine is a crystalline alkaloid extracted from the leaves of .................. plant.

Cinchona

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Cannabis sativa

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Erythroxylum coca

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Cactus

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Solution

The correct option is A Erythroxylum coca
Erythroxylum coca is one of the two species of cultivated coca. Erythroxylum coca is well adapted to the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia, an area of humid, tropical forest. This coca leaf contains a number of alkaloids, including cocaine the principal alkaloid while others being methylecgonine, cinnamate, benzoylecgonine, etc.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.

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