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Mark your calendar for the Big Island Chocolate Festival, April 10 to April 12, and learn everything from growing to eating ...

The history of chocolate starts in the rainforests of the Amazon basin, where the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao ... the earliest to domesticate the cacao plant and brew a chocolate beverage from ...

Cope, F W. 1938. Some factors controlling the yield of young cacao—II. 8th Ann Rep on Cacao Res (Trin.), pp. 4–15. Cope, F W. 1939. Studies in the mechanism of self-incompatibility in cacao-II.

Divergence time estimates suggest that Theobroma cacao and Theobroma grandiflorum shared a common ancestor ~10.11 million years ago, with Theobroma cacao diverging around 7.55 million years ago.

The scientific name Theobroma cacao was given to the cocoa plant by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. He used drawings from Sloane's collection as the basis of his description. Sloane’s Jamaican collections ...

It really is the "food of the gods" The scientific name for chocolate is theobroma ... to grow cacao plants on British soil after practising with pineapples. They managed to produce a plant ...