Accession Data:
Theobroma cacao L.
sect. Theobroma
- Common Name: Cacao, Chocolate
- Family: Malvaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Central & South America
- Habitat: understory plant in wet, lowland tropics
- Description: This small evergreen from Central America is grown throughout the wet, lowland tropics under the shade of taller trees and is the source of commercial cocoa and chocolate. Flowers are borne on the trunk, a good example of cauliflory. The 8-12" long, yellow or red fruit has a white, mucilaginous, mildly sweet pulp which can be eaten and many flat seeds. The oil from the seeds is used in cosmetics and perfumes. Propagated by seed, cutting, air layering or grafting.
- USDA Zone: 11-12
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198500319
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1103 - AFR:Ground Bed 1 NE
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-31-2024
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid II
- Order: Malvales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Malvaceae
- SubFamily: Byttneroideae
- Tribe: Theobromeae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Fly pollination (myophily and sapromyophily)
- Edible Plants
- Plants with Edible Fruits
- Cauliflory
- Type Species
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- Scavenger Hunt - Grades 9-12 (generic)
- Pollination Syndrome Scavenger Hunt
- ECE 2019 - Scavenger Hunt
- Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Southwest / Belize / Costa Rica / Nicaragua / Panama / Venezuela / Colombia / Ecuador
References (external):
- California Rare Fruit Growers WWW Site
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, October 20, 2016.
- Theobroma cacao at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Thursday, October 20, 2016.
- Images #00 (cropped) and #05 (original) by Luisovalles (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Friday, July 21, 2017.
- Pollinators - Chocolate midge at National Park Service. Last accessed on Thursday, July 19, 2018.
data regenerated on Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:27:03 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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W/C = Wild Collected
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