Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Theobroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It was previously classified as a member of Sterculiaceae, which has been incorporated into ...
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the Malvaceae family. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Its seeds - cocoa beans - are used to make chocolate liquor , cocoa solids , cocoa butter and chocolate . [ 4 ]
Theobroma speciosum is an evergreen tree that grows up to 15 m (49 ft) tall. [9] The trunk is straight, [ 7 ] with plagiotropic (horizontally growing) [ 10 ] side branches . [ 11 ] The canopy is small. [ 7 ]
Theobroma grandiflorum, commonly known as cupuaçu, also spelled cupuassu, cupuazú, cupu assu, or copoazu, is a tropical rainforest tree related to cacao. [2] Native and common throughout the Amazon basin, it is naturally cultivated in the jungles of northern Brazil, with the largest production in Pará, Amazonas and Amapá, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. [2]
Theobroma bicolor can reach a height of 3–8 metres in open fields, although in the understories of forests it can grow to 25–30 metres. [3] It is a slow-growing tree and grows best in loose, unconsolidated soils.
Forcipomyia squamipennis is an important pollinator of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao in Ghana, [1] not because it pollinates more effectively than other insects but because it is so numerous in cacao plantations. The population is greatest in the rainy season.
The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.
Theobroma cacao, a tropical evergreen tree Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate; Cacao paste, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into: Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and; Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.