There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma ...

Cacao pods, which grow directly from the trunk and branches of the cacao tree, contain seeds surrounded by a sweet-tasting pulp. (This photo of a cacao tree growing in Belize illustrates how these ...

The fruit of the cocoa tree is a pod full of sweet pulp enfolding a cluster of about 20 to 40 cocoa seeds. Cocoa takes about two and a half years to mature and gives two harvests in a year.

Neem and panax wind-break trees are meant to protect the orchard, and the mountains mostly block trade winds. Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from ...

Cocoa pods in Antony Mugambi's two-acre farm in Kiagu ... acknowledges the potential of cacao as an afforestation tree. “Cacao can be an important tree in our efforts to increase forest cover ...

but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't a common practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma ...

This year, with about 5,500 productive trees in the ground, Ku’ia is in the midst of its biggest harvest yet. Farm Manager David McPherson harvests cacao pods Friday morning. — The Maui News ...

Cocoa trees are not the most efficient reproducers. Some have estimated that around one in 400-500 cocoa flowers will produce fruit, and only 10% to 30% of pods will reach maturity. Is the future of ...