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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: 32. Chapters: Trees of the Amazon, Theobroma cacao, Brazil nut, Eichhornia crassipes, Southwest Amazon moist forests, Attalea maripa, Myrciaria dubia, Victoria amazonica, Socratea exorrhiza, Pouteria caimito, Hevea brasiliensis, Psychotria poeppigiana, Bactris gasipaes, Aechmea chantinii, Attalea speciosa, Annona montana, List of Brazilian plants of Amazon Rainforest, Erythrina fusca, Platonia, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Symphonia globulifera, Myriophyllum aquaticum, Aphandra, Southwestern Amazonian moist forests, Hura crepitans, Astrocaryum vulgare, Alchornea castaneifolia, Tayuya, Schefflera morototoni, Pourouma cecropiifolia, Suma root, Talisia esculenta, Licania rigida, Leopoldinia piassaba, Echinodorus bleheri, Passiflora alata, Annona purpurea, Hancornia speciosa, Quararibea cordata, Aspasia variegata, Astronium fraxinifolium, Eugenia stipitata, Magnolia amazonica, Magnolia rimachii, Vouacapoua americana, Cinchona officinalis, Tetrapterys methystica, Acioa edulis, Astrocaryum jauari, Couepia longipendula, Pseudomonotes, Albizia glabripetala, Allantoma lineata, Rollinia amazonica, Cinchona ledgeriana, Asteranthos brasiliensis, Prestonia amazonica, Bactris constanciae, Wettinia drudei, Mauritia carana, Amburana acreana, Apeiba albiflora, Antrocaryon amazonicum, Astronium lecointei. 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...
