Cacao flower
Title | Info |
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Common name | Cacao or chocolate |
Scientific name | Theobroma cacao |
Taxonomic group | Sterculiaceae |
Source | Dan L. Perlman |
Economic botany | Food plants |
Food plants | Other |
Date | 1992 |
Location | Costa Rica,North America |
Cacao flower. Chocolate is made from the fruit of the cacao plant, a small understory tree originally from the New World tropics. The flower will develop into a large pod that is harvested for the cacao beans it contains.