Kola nuts

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The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree (Cola acuminata and Cola nitida), indigenous to West Africa. The trees, which reach heights of *0 to *0 feet, produce a star-shaped fruit. Each fruit contains between two and five kola nuts. About the size of a chestnut, this little fruit is packed  with caffeine.

Kola nuts have a bitter taste when chewed fresh. When theyre dried, the taste becomes milder and they reportedly smell of nutmeg.
The term kola nut usually refers to the seeds of certain species of plant of the genus Cola, placed formerly in the cocoa family Sterculiaceae and now usually subsumed in the mallow family Malvaceae (as subfamily Sterculioideae). These cola species are trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. Their caffeine-containing seeds are used as flavoring ingredients in beverages applied to various carbonated soft drinks, from which the name cola originates. Kola nuts have about a dozen seeds within the fruit. The seeds are approximately walnut sized, creamy white when fresh, turning pink to reddish brown when dry. The nut has sweet, rose-like smell but is quite bitter to the taste. Flavor tends to decrease in bitterness with chewing. The teeth, lips and gums of the person chewing cola nuts will turn orange.
The Kola tree flowers for three months, and then fruits for three months. The dried nuts are available year-round
Kola nitida is a tropical evergreen tree from West Africa. The Kola tree can grow up to *5 meters ta