stackyFACTSChocolate begins as a very awkward botanical display. Instead of sprouting on the ends of branches like normal fruit, massive cacao pods protrude directly out of the thick wooden trunk of the tree. This strange growth habit forces farmers to carefully hack them off with machetes without scarring the bark.
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