Cacao  (Chocolate)    Theobroma cacoa L., family: Sterculiaceae     Food and Medicinal Uses
Cacao tree with a vanilla bean vine growing along its limb.  Both plants residents of a organic farm in Costa Rica.
Seed pod 6 to 8 inches long and contains plus or minus 40 seeds.

Jill, my wife, likes her cacao like this: Pistachio and coconut ice cream under a vanilla meringue suffocating under a pyroclastic flow of chocolate.  Le Chanticlaire Restaurant, near Blois, Loire River, France.