Summary description from Wikipedia:

Theobroma cacao in languages:

Chinese

可可樹

Czech

kakaovník pravý

Danish

kakao

English

cacao tree

English

cocoa tree

Estonian

harilik kakaopuu

Finnish

kaakaopuu

French

Cacaoyer

German

Kakaobaum

Indonesian

Kakao

Italian

Cacao

Japanese

カカオ

Japanese

カカオノキ

Polish

kakaowiec właściwy

Portuguese

cacaueiro

Russian

Какао

Swedish

kakao

Turkish

kakao

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Parent Taxon

• Theobroma

Sibling Taxa

• Theobroma angustifolium
• Theobroma bernoullii
• Theobroma bicolor
• Theobroma cacao
• Theobroma canumanense
• Theobroma cirmolinae
• Theobroma gileri
• Theobroma glaucum
• Theobroma grandiflorum
• Theobroma hylaeum
• Theobroma mammosum
• Theobroma microcarpum
• Theobroma nemorale
• Theobroma obovatum
• Theobroma simiarum
• Theobroma sinuosum
• Theobroma speciosum
• Theobroma subincanum
• Theobroma sylvestre
• Theobroma velutinum

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