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The Old Man of the Wild Cacao Forest …
… the tree, not me! This majestic wild cacao tree is probably hundreds of years old and is still very productive. Unlike virtually all other cacao varieties, which grow from a single trunk, as you can see there are dozens of trunks and new shoots called chupons. In a “modern” cacao farm the chupons would be pruned. On the wild cacao trees they are not as the unproductive chupons will simply wither and die.
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