Before I was born, my father planted a couple of theobroma cacao tree also known as the cacao tree. Standing about 4 to 8 meters tall the cacao tree is described as an evergreen tree and is part of the malvaceae family which is native to tropical regions of the Americas. The seeds looks like a brownish fat bean and there are about 20 embedded in a weird wet and soft slime-like white pulp (apparently it is sweet and delicious to taste). All of this are found in a pod, also called a cacao pod, which is about 15 to 30 cm long and about 10 cm wide. The cacao pods takes about 5 to 6 months to be ready and ripened and hence are harvested around the world twice.