"Theobroma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of "Cacao," is almost universally used in English-speaking countries to designate the seeds of the small tropical tree known to botanists as THEOBROMA CACAO, from which a great variety of preparations under the name of cocoa and chocolate for eating and drinking are made. The name "Chocolatl" is nearly the same in most European languages, and ...
— Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes • Miss Parloa
... the merchants' stores, and does not fetch more than half the price of the same article grown in other parts of tropical America. The Amazons region is the original home of the principal species of chocolate tree, the Theobroma cacao; and it grows in abundance in the forests of the upper river. The cultivated crop appears to be a precarious one; little or no care, however, is bestowed on the trees, and even weeding is done very inefficiently. The plantations are generally old, and have been made on the low ground near ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... answers instead of oil of theobroma very nicely, and I have used it considerably in making ointments and ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 • Various |
