The Cocoa Pod
Cocoa trees are fruit producing throughout the year, although there are two main harvests in May and November. The cocoa pod grows straight out the trunk, with its gnarled and bulbous protrusions.
There are four types of shape of cocoa pod:
Amelonado ¬– Pods have melonlike shape, shallow ridges and furrows and tip is rounded, rather than pointed, with faint hint of bottleneck. The skin is thick, and usually smooth with occasional wartiness.
Angoleto – Pods are long and ridged with wide shoulders and little or no bottleneck. The tip is usually somewhat pointed but not curved.
Calabacillo ¬- Pods are shaped like a small pumpkin and are round or oval with thick and very smooth skin. They have almost no ridges or furrows and no suggestion of tip or bottlebeck. (Its colour is grass green changing to deep yellow as it matures.)
Cundeamor – Pods are long, warty, deeply ridged and furrowed, with either a pronounced bottleneck, or a suggestion of one, and a pointed tip with sometimes curved.
