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Theobroma cacao - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Nigeria; 10/2007 © Ralf Biechele

Theobroma cacao - Fruits and flowers - Click to enlarge!

Fruits and flowers; Zanzibar, Tanzania; 1/2009 © Joachim Sauerborn

Theobroma cacao - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Botanical Garden Munich, Germany; 2/2004 © Jörn Germer

Theobroma cacao - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Theobroma cacao - New leaf flush - Click to enlarge!

New leaf flush; Aburi Botanic Gardens, Aburi, Ghana; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Theobroma cacao - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Aburi Botanic Gardens, Aburi, Ghana; 9/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 43
Date of entry: 20.10.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Cacao

German: Kakaobaum

Mandarin: 可可 (ke ke)

Portuguese: Cacau

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2586)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2483)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2101)

      Order: Malvales (77)

        Family: Sterculiaceae (6)(family description)

          Genus: Theobroma (2)

            Epithet: cacao L. (1)

cacao => from Aztek word for 'Theobroma cacao'

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: pink, beige, white

External links

Check for Theobroma cacao at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [25] Schütt,P. et al. (2004): Bäume der Tropen. Nikol, Hamburg, Germany.

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