cacao-bush

Updated: May 19, 2025

I think I have described this to me 'miraculum' simply enough to be understood by the non-scientific reader, if only he or she have first learned the undoubted fact known, I find, to very few 'educated' English people that the coco-palm which produces coir- rope, and coconuts, and a hundred other useful things, is not the same plant as the cacao-bush which produces chocolate, nor anything like it.

Charles Kingsley - At Last