The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

Gunars Valkirs, tells me that he prefers to focus on what it takes to plant, grow and harvest his cacao in the West Maui mountains — and explains it from the ground up. Maui Ku‘ia Estate ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS Cacao is made from the beans of the Theobroma cacao evergreen tree. The tree belongs to the Malvaceae family, and the beans can be used to make edible products, ...

Despite the high economic importance of cacao beans, few RNA-based studies have been conducted on this plant material and hence no optimal RNA-extraction has been reported. Moreover, extraction of ...

Where Does Raw Cacao Come From? Raw cacao comes from the beans of the Theobroma cacao tree. The beans, technically seeds, grow within pods in the Baba part of the plant. The Baba is a fleshy white ...

Mosquitoes play a role in pollinating the cacao chocolate tree, water lilies, and carrion flowers because of their sweet-smelling flowers and nectar. The attraction of certain mosquitoes to ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily ... a drink made from the cocoa-plant, which they said he took before visiting his wives." The Spaniards noted that the Aztecs could walk long ...