Sentences with phrase «cultivate cacao trees»
It was here he began to cultivate cacao trees, creating rich chocolate by hand in a thatched bamboo house secluded in the heart of the forest.
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Cacao is a small evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to tropical South America, but now cultivated throughout the tropics.
Cacao refers to the plant, a small evergreen tree, which is cultivated for its seeds, also known as cacao beans or cocoa bCacao refers to the plant, a small evergreen tree, which is cultivated for its seeds, also known as cacao beans or cocoa bcacao beans or cocoa beans.
Top crop: Indigenous to the tropical forests of Central America, cacao trees have grown wild in Belize for some 3,000 years — flourishing in the humid microclimates of cenotes — and farmed since around 250 B.C. Today Belize's cacao farmers, mostly in the country's southern Toledo District, cultivate the native Criollo plant, which is considered to be the highest quality cacao bean native to Central America.