Botanical illustration of a yellow cacao pod, a pod split open to show pale beans, and single brown cacao beans on a cream background.

A single brown cacao bean above the words "BE MINE" in gold capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Cacao, Be Mine

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A golden cacao pod, split open to show its beans, from Walther Otto Müller's 1887 plates for Köhler's guide to healing plants, with a simple "Be mine" inside. Theobroma means food of the gods, and the Maya and Aztecs drank cacao at weddings and great feasts. For the one you love, chocolate lover or not.

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Inside, it says

BE MINE

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / CACAO / Theobroma cacao / Theobroma means food of the gods. The Maya and Aztecs drank cacao at weddings and great feasts, and used the beans as money. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.

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