You answered 1: c
The scientific name of the cacao tree, Theobroma, is Latin for "flowering trunk."
Good guess, but not quite. The correct answer is, "food of the gods."
Carolus
Linneus, the Swedish inventor of the modern taxonomical system for naming plants and
animals, gave the chocolate tree this genus name in 1753. He was clearly thinking more of the
taste than of the tree itself.
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