The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CACAO
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More clues leading to the result CACAO
- Tree approximately twice the height of oak?
- About two times over what is needed to make chocolate
- Caught adult beginning to ask around 12: “Love some chocolate?”
- Substantial growth roughly doubled with ending of embargo
- Candies and chocolates and others: source of all of those?
- Seeds to eat when you are out of liqueur
- Daisy sounded out by stutterer in tree
- Tropical tree is about calcium, nothing 15
- Pair of Manx cats love tropical tree
- 4 disregarding news over tree
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The straight part
We know that "Tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tree = cacao.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CACAO mean?
CACAO noun- A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.