>At 03:12 PM 3/11/01 -0500, Stacie Tolen wrote:
> >Chocolate is from the cocoa bean, which is a legume.

Then Katy wrote:
Caco beans grow on tree trunks of caco trees in football shaped pods.
Since I understood legumes to be leafy, bushy plants with nodes on their
roots that harbor nitrogen-fixing bacteria, I don't think Caco beans are
legumes.
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On the following page, which details plant relationships, it says that
Cacao/Cocoa/Chocolate are members of the order Malvales, and the family
Sterculiaceae. It doesn't seem to be a member of the legume family.

http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/Food/RelatedPlantList.html

This is the best such list of plant relationships I've found on the web; if
anyone knows of a more complete or accurate one, please post the URL.

Deborah