Macambo – Jaguar White Cacao

It is a hidden gem, a close but distinctive relative of cacao,
with a delicate white bean. Its scientific name, Theobroma bicolor,
points to this close relationship with cacao, though it has
important differences.

Macambo is currently grown near the earliest archaeological site
with evidence of cacao consumption dating back 5,000 years. With
its tasty pulp and large, edible seeds, macambo was very likely
discovered and domesticated at around the same time as cacao by
ancient Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon basin.

Jaguar Cacao is known as macambo, but also as patasmuyo, kila, wakam,
bacao. paxate, and cacao blanco.