Plant Classification Cacao (Theobroma cacao)
a) Type of criollo,
• a type of cacao tree produces the brown seeds: very good quality and are known as: chocolate noble, fine flavor cocoa, choiced cocoa, and cocoa Edel.

• The fruit is red or green, thin fruit skin rash berbintil rough and soft.

• Seeds of the fruit are the egg-shaped and this fruit has large shape with white cotyledons when it is wet.

• The amount is ± 7%, is a type of Edel produced in Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad, Grenada, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Samoa (Minifie, 1980).

b) type Forastero
• a type of cacao tree produces the brown seeds: its quality is or bulk cocoa, also known as ordinary cocoa. Read this article »