FREE: 5 Cacao Seeds

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Cacao fruit is native to Colombia. Chocolate is derived from the seeds (or pods) of the cacao. These fruits grow on the cacao tree. The cacao tree reaches a height from 4 up to 8 m. The leaves are oval and evergreen. The almost 1 cm big flowers grow the whole year directly at the trunk. The fruits look like fat cucumbers and are 15 to 20 cm big. During drying of the cacaofruit the skin turns from white to cacao red. In the fruit, there are about 20 till 50 brown beans. These beans are covert in a white pulp. This pulp has a sour/sweet taste.