Cocoa Pods - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65125 | |||||
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Plant Name | 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Theobroma cacao | Entry Book Number | 21.1912 | |
| Artefact Name | Cocoa Pods | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Trinidad and Tobago | TDWG Region | Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Parts Held | Cocoa Pods | Geography Description | Tobago | ||
| Uses | Cocoa PodsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Hill AW | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Cocoa pods from Tobago, exhibited at Trinidad agricultural show 1912 - from trees known to have been grown in Tobago for 200 years. Letter King`s Bay Tobago 31st Jan 1912 - In 1906 I went with a native as guide up the Louis D'or River (2 mi, les from King`s Bay, Tobago) for about 3 miles and then scrambled up a tributary ravine until the 'Woods Cacao' (as the natives call it) was reached. There were about a dozen trees in a clump surrounded by forest tree from 50 to 100 feet in height and t, he cacao trees appeared like huge palms with a crest of branches at the top. Seeds had dropped and the young seedlings were like young fishing rods from 40 to 50 feet long, bare but for a few leaves on top. A few pods were on the trees, perhaps three on e, ach at most. As they were not ripe I sent a native a couple of months later to gather them and he brought down 5 pods. Three of these were sent to the late Mr IG Haynes, St Clair Avenue and from Bamboo cups, he transplanted a number of the plants in his g, arden and it was from these trees that the pods on the Tobago Planters' Association Stand at the exhibition, were gathered. It may be of interest to state that Mr Haynes in 1908 sent me pods from these trees just 2 years after he had received the seeds. I, t is said that the trees were planted by Dutch settlers and are over 200 years old. Robert S Reid. Copy of report on cacao pods brought by Mr Hill from Trinidad 1912 Feb 23rd, enclosed in letter Mr WG Freeman, St Clair Experiment Station, Trinidad, dated, Feb 19th 1912. See letter 124, 1912 VII p.125 | ||||