可可树

你可以先在可可树森林里散步。

You can first take a walk in a cocoa tree forest .

野生可可树实际上是不会死的。

The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal .

巧克力出自可可树。

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree

Mars的竞争者Hershey's支持一种比较少见的可可树，克里奥罗（Criollo）的基因图谱的绘制。

A competitor of Mars , Hershey 's , supported the gene mapping of the Criollo , a far less common cacao tree .

Howard-YanaShapiro：“西非可可树的产量有可能达到4000千克，是现在产量的十倍。”

HOWARD-YANA SHAPIRO : " There 's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos , ten times what the average is in West Africa . "

巧克力是热带可可树的一种产物。

Chocolate is a product of the tropical cacao tree .

但是现在，科学家描绘出了其中两种可可树的基因图谱。

But now scientists have genetic maps of two kinds of cocoa trees .

农民们在可可树的旁边种一些高大的树，用来当作绿荫。

Farmers plant taller trees next to the cacaos and use them as shade .

还是有其他原因使得原本健康的可可树突然不再产豆了呢？

Or is there some other reason the healthy tree has suddenly lost its beans ?

大多数可可树是在南美洲和美洲中部，非洲，和东南亚发现的。

Most cacao trees are found in Central and South America , Africa , and Southeast Asia .

受病虫害侵害，每年有三分之一的可可树颗粒无收。

About a third of the crop grown every year is trashed because of pests and disease .

可可树在第十年的时候产量是最高的。但是之后的很长一段时间依然非常高产。

The trees produce the most pods when they are ten , but they are still productive long after that .

可可树生长到第五年才开始长出含有可可豆的豆荚。

The trees are usually in their fifth year when they start to grow the pods that contain the beans .

可可树生长在炎热多余的非洲，亚洲，中美洲和南美洲地区。

Cacao or cocoa trees grow in hot , rainy areas of Africa , Asia and Central and South America .

但是当一棵枝繁叶茂的可可树出现的时候，我并没有意识到：我发现了世界上最好的可可树。

And yet , as a full-fledged chocoholic , Idon 't mind : I 'm about to find the world 's best cacao .

他和他的家族种植可可树和咖啡树，经营一家清洁公司，财产租赁以及为跨国公司提供物流管理服务。

He and his family farm cocoa and coffee , run a cleaning business , lease out property and manage logistics for international companies .

可可树不很大，只有大约20英尺高。它生长在西非热带地区的潮湿低洼的地方。

The cocoa tree is not very big , only about twenty feet high , and it grows in moist lowlands in the hot parts of West Africa .

在中墨西哥，阿兹太克人认为智慧和权力来自于可可树果实的食用，其富有营养，增强体质，甚至有壮阳作用。

In central Mexico , the Aztecs believed that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cocoa tree , and that it had nourishing , fortifying , and even aphrodisiac qualities .

但是，可可豆树不能在阿之台克人居住的地方生长。

But , the cacao plant could not grow in the area where the Aztecs lived .

一种常青灌木或小树（可可椰子树），生长在美洲和非洲热带地区，有用于制造果子冻和蜜饯的椰子状果实。

An evergreen shrub or small tree ( Chrysobalanus icaco ) native to the American and African tropics , having plumlike fruit used to make jellies and preserves .

可可豆荚以树的形态生长，原产于中南美洲。

Cacao pods , which grow on trees , originated in Central and South America .

迄今为止，我们的研究把重点放在了利用细胞培养生产可可、巴巴多斯麻风树坚果的油以及橙汁。

So far , our work has focused on using cell culture to produce cocoa , the oil of the Barbados nut Jatropha curcas , and orange juice .

可可和巧克力是由可可树子制出来的。

As other countries challenged Spain 's monopoly on cacao , chocolate became more widely available .

经过半个世纪几乎无间断的扩张，占全球供应量近40%的象牙海岸可可机器开始运转不灵了：可可树老化生病，国家陷入内战。

After half a century of almost uninterrupted expansion , the Ivorian cocoa machine , which accounts for nearly 40 per cent of global supplies , was faltering . Trees were getting old and sick and the country was immersed in a civil war .

可可豆（实际上就是可可子）生长在可可树的豆荚中。

The cocoa bean , actually a seed , grows in pods on trees .

可可农除草不彻底，药也喷得不够，还任由槲寄生在可可树上生长。

Farmers were not weeding enough , they were not spraying their trees sufficiently and were allowing mistletoe to grow on them .