. Cocoa : all about it. Cocoa; cbk. 12 COCOA : ALL AIJOUT IT. the year; grow off the trunk and thickest parts of the boughs, with stalks only an inch long. Humboldt saw the flower bursting through the earth out of the root, and wondered at the prodigious vital force of the plant. The flowers, which grow in tufts or clusters, are very small, having five yellow petals on a rose- coloured calyx. The fruit is five celled, without valves, from seven to nine-and-a-half inches in length, and three to four inches in breadth, of an elliptic, oval-pointed shape, something like the vegetable marrow, only
. Cocoa : all about it. Cocoa; cbk. 12 COCOA : ALL AIJOUT IT. the year; grow off the trunk and thickest parts of the boughs, with stalks only an inch long. Humboldt saw the flower bursting through the earth out of the root, and wondered at the prodigious vital force of the plant. The flowers, which grow in tufts or clusters, are very small, having five yellow petals on a rose- coloured calyx. The fruit is five celled, without valves, from seven to nine-and-a-half inches in length, and three to four inches in breadth, of an elliptic, oval-pointed shape, something like the vegetable marrow, only more elongated and pointed at the end, tough and quite smooth, the colour varying, according to the season, from bright yellow to red and purple. The rind of the fruit is very. Pod, Leaves , -I'ud cut open shewing Seeds. thick and similar to a very hard, tough apple in substance, and has a slightly sweet taste ; if allowed to ripen this changes into a shell of a weak nature. The seeds contained in each pod vary in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Historicus, 1835-1899. London : S. Low, Marston and Co.
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