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GS 74    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: Grenada Selection.
Collected by Pound/Cooper/Cope.
Location: Grenada, Grenada.

Notes:  Bartley, 1993 [BAR93A] Selections made in late '40s in Grenada established at Boulogne nursery.

Bartley, 1996a [BAR96A]. The Grenada population(s) originated largely from two distinct types. One of these is an "Amazonian" variety which is apparently not the related to the ex-Orinoco variety of Trinidad, but is similar to other types on other Caribbean islands and the "Matina" type of Costa Rica. The other type is a Venezuelan Criollo which may be descended from more than one introduction.
 

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 Grenada, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry and Fisheries
List received in 1994   Reference
• Local Name: GS 74

Pod Index: 27.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 54.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.00 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.7 mm
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Testa: 5.50 %
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Shape: criollo
Colour: red
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: intense
Length: 178.0 mm
Breadth: 91.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.93 mm
Ligule Width: 2.57 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 1.87 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
Grenada - MALF (1994) Notes on the cocoa germplasm in Grenada. C.A. Williams, Grenada Cocoa Association, Grenada. Personal Communication.
Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee (2022) Morphological data from the International Cocoa Collection (ICG,T) maintained by the Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), Trinidad & Tobago. Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele. Last update March 2022.