The Huntington Museum of Art began harvesting pods from its cacao plant during the first week of December 2024 to teach staff ...

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

"It highlights the importance of protecting this habitat." It is thought that seedlings or seeds of the cocoa tree were carried north into Mexico and Central America, perhaps along sea routes.

not only to reduce to a minimum the acreage required for field-experimentation with cacao but also to help in understanding the behaviour of tree crops and of cacao in particular.

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 ...

“Our cacao tree flowers from about April until August, September, sometime around there — we have a long flowering window — and then it takes the pods probably about three or four months to ripe ...

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.