Cocoa Plant Flower. Leaves up to 20cm long oblong obovate with drip. Its flowers dangle down loosely and have long tube forming petals.
Its seeds cocoa beans are used to make chocolate liquor cocoa solids cocoa butter and chocolate 3 the largest producer of cocoa beans in. While many of the world s flowers are pollinated by bees hymenoptera or butterflies moths lepidoptera cocao flowers are pollinated by tiny flies midges in the order diptera. You d be lost without it has uploaded 198 photos to flickr.
Native to lowland rainforests of south america cacao is grown commercially in the new world tropics as well as western africa and tropical asia.
The gnat has to reach deep into this flower s corollas or petals to obtain nectar and as it does so it rubs pollen onto its body ready to be transferred onto the next plant. Leaves up to 20cm long oblong obovate with drip. A marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by two longitudinal curved lines one line on each side of the midrib and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf. Cocoa flower 20a george street chester ch1 3eq tel.
