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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 ...