Quararibea funebris

Quararibea funebris has common names including huyu (Maya), flor de cacao, madre de cacao, coco mama, swizzle stick tree, cacahuaxochitl or cacaoxochitl, (Nahuatl = chocolate flower) rosa de cacao, rosita de cacao, tepecacao, funeral tree, flor de tejate and tejate. It is a tree native to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. This plant is used as a medicinal plant, and the flowers as one of the essential ingredients in the traditional chocolate-maize drink known as tejate. The twigs also have some of the distinctive flavour and are used for mixing and frothing tejate while preparing it. Quararibea fieldii and Quararibea guatemalteca flowers and twigs were reported as used in the same manner but these species are now regarded as synonyms of Q. funebris subsp. funebris. There are two recognised subspecies: Q. funebris subsp. funebris and Q. funebris subsp. nicaraguensis The flowers of plants of this genus are also depicted on Maya drinking vessels ......read more on Wikipedia.