This is an interesting item i came across while looking up the information about Iboga for someone who lived on the Dutch colonial Island of Curacao. I thought I might be able to find a shop on the Island which catered to Dutch Smart Shop items such as memory pills or memory sharpening drinks and similar herbal energy products or seeds for plants illegal in most countries but not in the Nederlands. I thought I could find someone in Curacao selling seeds for Iboga. A friend had once before told me that they sold have coca energy drinks on Curacao, but I could not fined anything to verify that.
But I did find some information on an herbal drink called Curaçao. It is a liqueur flavored with the dried peels of the laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaçao. You might want to try some of those leaves also.
I do not think they are illegal in America.
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A non-native plant similar to an orange, larahas developed from the sweet Valencia orange transplanted by Spanish explorers. The nutrient-poor soil and arid climate of Curaçao proved unsuitable to Valencia cultivation, rendering small bitter fruits in the trees. The aromatic peels maintained much of the essence of the Valencia varietal, and the trees were eventually bred into the current laraha species, whose fruits remain inedibly bitter.
Initially discovered by accident, the drink was first developed and marketed by the Senior family (a Jewish family of Spanish and Portuguese descent) in the 19th century. To create the liqueur, the laraha peels are dried, bringing out their sweetly fragranced oils. After soaking in a still with alcohol and water for several days, the peels are removed and other spices are added.
The liqueur has an orange-like flavor with varying degrees of bitterness. It is naturally colorless, but is often given artificial coloring, most commonly blue, which confers an exotic appearance to cocktails and other mixed drinks, given that almost no drinks or other foodstuffs exist that are truly blue colored by nature.
Some other liquors are also sold as Curaçaos with different flavors added, such as coffee, chocolate and rum raisin.
boomer2
Irie Boomer,
Wikkid, I got trees all around! :smoke:3
I'll have to dry some leaves.....
Respect
Z
Curaçao liqueur is yummy and can be found in most liquor stores stateside. I dunno how authentic the average-priced bottle is, but it helps makes a mean margarita.