Image of the cacao tree featured in the The Chocolate-Plant (Theobroma cacao) and its Products (1891) by Walter Baker and Company, the oldest producer of chocolate in the United States.
Featured on PDR in the essay Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Christine Jones explores the different ways the cacao tree has been depicted through history — from 16th-century codices to 18th-century botanicals — and what this changing iconography reveals about cacao’s journey into European culture.
Also appearing in the essay…
Theobroma Cacao
Date
1891
From
The Chocolate-Plant (Theobroma cacao) and its Products
