At the Botanical Gardens: this is the pod where cocoa beans grow. The cocoa plant is unusual because the pods grow out of the trunk of the tree. I read that the early explorers brought back sketches showing this oddity, along with cocoa pods and beans. Botanists making drawings for publication "corrected" the pictures to show the pods growing "normally."
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