Online Encyclopedia
Make a correction
Your email address will not appear on the site. Note, comments may take some time to be approved.
Back to article:
CATHA
Your email:
Article name:
Article content:
CATHA, the khat of the Arabs, a shrub widely distributed and much cultivated in Arabia. and tropical Africa from Abyssinia to the Cape. The dried leaves are used for the preparation of a kind of tea and also as tobacco. The plant is a member of the natural order Celastraceae, a family of shrubs and trees found in temperate and tropical climates and represented in Britain by the spindle-tree (Euonynzus europaeus).