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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Cashew, Theobroma cacao, Brazil nut, Anadenanthera peregrina, Roystonea oleracea, Solanum erianthum, Prosopis juliflora, Manchineel, Spondias mombin, Bursera simaruba, Pouteria caimito, Plumeria rubra, Melicoccus bijugatus, Pithecellobium dulce, Avicennia germinans, Ochroma pyramidale, Swietenia macrophylla, Couroupita guianensis, Aiphanes deltoidea, Tabebuia rosea, Annona montana, Genipa americana, Prosopis pallida, Erythrina fusca, Platonia, Manilkara bidentata, Juglans neotropica, Acoelorrhaphe, Annona glabra, Miconia calvescens, Guaiacum officinale, Zanthoxylum fagara, Ceroxylon quindiuense, Hura crepitans, Cyrilla, Castilla elastica, Psidium guajava, Divi-divi, Coccothrinax argentata, Cordia alliodora, Schefflera morototoni, Diospyros digyna, Crescentia cujete, Sideroxylon celastrinum, Weinmannia tormentosa, Wild Cashew, Tabebuia serratifolia, Pachira quinata, Astronium graveolens, Cassia grandis, Plumeria pudica, Heliocarpus americanus, Dendropanax colombianus, Quararibea cordata, Reinhardtia, Quararibea asterolepis, Macrosamanea consanguinea, Siparuna lozaniana, Copernicia tectorum, Bombacopsis, Siparuna gentryana, Simaba cedron, Cedrela montana. Excerpt: Theobroma cacao also cacao tree and cocoa tree, is a small (4-8 m or 15-26 ft tall) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. Its seeds are used to make cocoa powder and chocolate. There are two prominent competing hypotheses about the origins of the domestication of the originally wild Theobroma cacao tree. One is that wild examples were originally distributed from southeastern Mexico to the Amazon basin, with domestication taking place both in the Lacandon area of Mexico and in lowland South America. But recent studies of Theobroma cacao genetics seem to show that the plant ori...
