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All chocolate products start with the cocoa tree, which originated in the upper Amazon basin. In the wild, it grows to 50 feet tall as an "understory" tree in the shade of towering 200-foot-tall hardwoods and other trees.
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www.cocoatree.org/thecocoatree/growingcocoa.asp
www.cocoatree.org/thecocoatree/growingcocoa.asp
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The Cocoa Tree is Nashville's artisan chocolate and truffle café. Founded by chocolatier Bethany Thouin, The Cocoa Tree is in Nashville’s Germantown district. ... The Fall is here and change is all around us. As the temperature drops and the ... There is something about this time of year that also calls us to chocolate.
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www.thecocoatree.com/
www.thecocoatree.com/
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Cocoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree, from which chocolate is made. (The word "cocoa" is derivative of "cacao".) "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly know...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa
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The seeds must be dispersed by animals, the tree has no way of doing it. There are two varieties of cocoa tree, crillo and forastero (and a number of hybrids). The crillo is "finicky", gives fewer pods with fewer seeds per pod.
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www.robwildridge.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/TREE.HTM
www.robwildridge.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/TREE.HTM
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Browse pictures and read growth / cultivation information about Cocoa Tree, Cacao (Theobroma cacao) supplied by member gardeners in the PlantFiles database at Dave's Garden. ... OK, so I bought a cocoa pod off of the internet (from Florida), received it in the mail, and planted 15 of the 17 ... Crossing with a different tree,
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The tree grows an oblong fruit commonly called a pod, which can be four to 12 inches long. When the pod is young it is green in color, and can turn yellow, red or purple when ripe. Each pod contains 20 to 60 reddish-brown cocoa beans up to an inch long, which are usually arranged in five rows surrounded by a sugary pulp.
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www.rainforest-alliance.org/resources.cfm?id=cacao
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Why does the cacao tree need a tropical rainforests to grow? ... The Sweet Science of Chocolate: This Web site provides background information on the origins of chocolate, describes how to process cocoa beans and make chocolate bars and discusses the possible health benefits of eating chocolate.
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www.rainforest-alliance.org/education.cfm?id=fourth_l2
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Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders ... Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit...
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zChocolat: the cocoa tree and its different varieties ... The cocoa tree (Latin Theobroma Cacao, meaning literally “food of the gods“) only grows in humid, tropical climates, with cultivation limited to regions between 20° north and 20° south of the equator.
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www.zchocolat.com/chocolate/chocolate/cocoa-tree.asp
www.zchocolat.com/chocolate/chocolate/cocoa-tree.asp
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