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Inside the hut are shelves packed with Le Cirque chocolates, marzipan horses, holiday glitter, chocolate tree ornaments, Châteauneuf-du-Pape tea towels, cookbooks — Zoe Nathan's "Huckleberry," for example — and boxes of festive Christmas crackers.

But the delicate “chocolate tree,” Theobroma cacao, is in peril.

Cocoa, kō′kō, n. the seed of the cacao or chocolate tree: a beverage made from the seeds crushed and ground.

She jumped down from the chocolate tree as she spoke, and danced round Honey, clapping her hands with excitement.

He kindly gave me a quantity of young tea-plants and chocolate trees.