Cocoa Flowers (2)

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The cocoa flower. Kumasi, Ghana, 2007. Photo by Stan Thompson.
Only 1% of the flowers set into fruit and of these fruit, a number turn into charelles (sic), undeveloped, black pods.





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Cocoa flowers growing off the tree trunk. Note size next to human finger. (yes, it's human) Kumasi, Ghana, 2007. Photo by Stan Thompson.