Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Angela Mason Foster Extension Master GardenerSM Volunteer Few plants have ...

While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Andrew Fister, postdoctoral scholar in plant science, stands among cacao trees in the African country of Ivory Coast. Pods turning yellow and black are infected with black pod disease. Disclaimer ...

SEEDS from pods set by natural pollination on a clone which, when self-pollinated, gives 25 per cent albino seedlings 1 have been raised in a nursery and scored for this character. The plot is ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia: The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed knobby ...

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Volunteers separate seeds and pulp from halved cacao pods during Friday’s harvest at Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate’s Lahaina farm. The workers are sitting next to next to piles of just ...