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Conservatory Director Joshua Hamrick displays two cacao pods from the museumƵs tree on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at the Huntington Museum of Art.

Although most harvesting is done in the fall, December was the best time for employees at the Huntington Museum of Art to start picking fruits off its tropical cacao plant.

ƵOur cacao tree flowers from about April until August, September, sometime around there Ƶ we have a long flowering window Ƶ and then it takes the pods probably about three or four months to ripen. So we had a lot of them ripening around this time around Christmas, and thatƵs pretty typical, with it flowering all summer,Ƶ Conservatory Director Joshua Hamrick said.

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