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Community gifts Cacao
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The Cocoa tree helps support the Ashaninka communities to make a living from Chocolate production. Don’t let these ingredients be destroyed by logging. Sponsor one or more Cacao trees and help fight deforestion in the Amazon. Each tree plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the rainforest. When you protect a tree you receive a certificate via email and can view its location in your Cool Earth account. Or receive your certificate through the post. Help fight climate change and keep this tree standing.
- Local name
- Cacao
- Latin name
- Theobroma cacao
- Height
- 6 to 15m
- Girth
- 20-40 cm
- CO2 stored (tonnes)
- 2
- Leaves
- 20-40 cm long and 10-18 cm wide.
- Flower
- Clusters on trunk.
- Fruit
- Colourful large pods.
- Location
- Usually found below 600m altitude.
This is where chocolate begins. The fruit of the Cacao is about the size of a pineapple, oval in shape and can be yellow, red or orange in colour. It contains seeds usually called beans which are fermented and then sold on as the vital ingredient to chocolate or cocoa.
