Chocolate really does grow on trees, although not as little chocolates. Chocolate comes from the seeds of the tree Theobroma cacao, a tropical rainforest tree.. Produced from seeds of the cacao ...

Cacao fruit grow on the trunks, rather than the branches of Theobroma trees. They are harvested all year round by carefully cutting them from the tree using a specialized knife, instead of a machine.

When the English were introduced to Theobroma cacao around 1600, they coined the term “cocoa” because they assumed the fruit was similar to coconuts. This pretty much explains the earlier ...

Cocoa comes from the Theobroma cacao tree, which forms the basis of a multibillion-dollar U.S. chocolate industry. The seeds are processed into cocoa beans that are the source of cocoa, cocoa ...

The cacao tree faces a number of threats, ... "Theobroma cacao originated in the Neotropics from South America. However, little is known about its domestication and use in these regions." ...

The cacao tree species (Theobroma cacao L.), from which we get chocolate, is likely about 7.5 million years old, with chloroplast genomes indicating that the current known diversity diversified ...

The Theobroma cacao genome sequences are deposited in the EMB:/Genbank/DDBJ databases under accession numbers CACC01000001-CACC01025912. A genome browser can be found here . Tags ...

Theo Chocolate was named after the Theobroma cacao tree. If you want to know more about the company that makes organic-chocolate products, the Chocolate Factory Tour is for you. You’ll learn ...

You can thank these Theobroma cacao flowers for your brownie sundae. Courtesy of Flickr user Eric Hunt. The flowers of the cacao tree start opening in the late afternoon. Throughout the night, the ...

Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process. Communications Biology, 2018; 1 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0168-6; ...

Chocolate as we know it—in its sweet, delicious form—is made from cacao beans, which are the product of the Theobroma cacao tree. T. cacao is native to Central and South America, and people ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising find from the Amazon Basin: three new species of plants closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that gives us chocolate.This finding, made by examining ...