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SPA 4 [COL]    Theobroma cacao

 Colombia - ICA Palmira (1989)
? A catalogue of the cacao germplasm at ICA Palmira. F. Ocampo Rojas, ICA Palmira, Colombia.

Derivation: Seleccion PAlmira.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Palmira, Colombia.

As these are all progeny from a single fruit they should all have basically then same characteristics. Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Leaf - some unpigmented, large, broad and have an undulating (puckered/crinkled) surface. Fruit - basically similar in shape being broad elongate with slight roughness. Seed - some white. Bartley, 1997a [BAR97A]. Variation seen in flush leaf pigmentation from light green (white); the pigmentation of the stamen, which is often intense; and the colour of the fruit, which is either light green or dark green with a tendancy to be shiny.

Notes:  Lockwood & Gyamfi, 1979, [LOC79A] Collections made in Colombia by Pound, somewhere in the Amazon valley. Very similar to some Ecuador Oriente types.

Progeny of a fruit donated to Colombia by Pound (1943?).

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. The association between unpigmented flush leaves and white cotyledons found in some of these clones is typical of the genotypes from the Napo river. Pound did visit Santa Clotilde, the Peruvian research station on this river and the material may therefore have originated in this region.

In previous versions of the ICGD the SPA [COL] clones were included as synonyms of the group SC [COL] (SC 57 - 76 inclusive). The synonymy has now been reversed as this material was originally described as SPA and is more widely known under this name, as advised by Dr. Bartley.


 

Synonyms: SC 59 [COL]

Bartley, 1998a [BAR98A] There were two different trees at Mayaguez labelled SPA 4 [COL] and consequently some of the material sent from Mayaguez as SPA 4 [COL] was not SPA 4 [COL].

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Accession: 1053
   - Local Name: SPA 4
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: SPA-4
List received in 1989   Reference
• Local Name: SC 59 [COL]
List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 10505
   - Local Name: SPA-4
   - Year of Accession: 1960
 Sri Lanka, Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI)
List received in 1971   Reference
• Local Name: SPA 4 [COL]
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: SPA 4 [COL]
   - Year of Accession: 1969
List received in 2016   Reference
• Accession: TARS 16844     GRIN-Global 
   - Local Name: SPA 4 [COL]
   - Year of Accession: 1939

Resistant
 Butler, D.R. et al., 1998
Resistant (Field Reaction).
 Butler, D.R. et al., 1998

Pod Index: 35.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 35.0
Total Wet Weight: 41.2 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.80 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.3 mm
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Testa: 5.50 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 144.0 mm
Breadth: 68.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Basal Constriction: absent
Apex Form: slightly acute
Rugosity: very slight
Colour: absent anthocyanin
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: rounded
Rugosity: smooth
Colour: yellow
Hardness: hard
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Shape: amelonado
Colour: green
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: brownish red
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Shape: lanceolate
Length: 251.6 mm
Width: 80.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.90
Apex Form: acuminate
Pulvinus Present: Yes
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 114 mm
Length: 229.0 mm
Width: 82.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.80
Basal Angle: 105.3 °
Apical Angle: 82.4 °
Petiole Length: 19 mm
Pulvinus Length: 13 mm
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.86 mm
Ligule Width: 2.64 mm
Ovule Number: 44
Style Length: 2.01 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Petal Length: 7.90 mm
Sepal Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Width: 2.00 mm
Sepal Length: 6.75 mm
Sepal Length to Width Ratio: 3.37
Ligule Length: 1.53 mm
Ligule Width: 1.14 mm
Ligule Length to Width Ratio: 1.34
Ribbon Length: 3.00 mm
Ovary Width: 1.00 mm
Ovary Length: 1.70 mm
Ovary Length to Width Ratio: 1.70
Ovule Number: 61
Style Length: 2.00 mm
Staminode Colour: purplish red
Staminode Length: 5.25 mm
Pedicel Length: 11.00 mm
Pedicel Colour: light green
Hairs on Upper Surface of Sepal: absent
Pigmented Glands on Lower Surface of Sepal: present
Self Compatibility: self incompatible
Note: Translation of Pantone colour codes.
 Reference

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CEPEC (2012) Accession list for the CEPEC (Bahia, Brazil) collection. Dr. José Luis Pires, personal communication, February 2012.
Mars Center for Cocoa Science (2012) Accession list for the Mars Center for Cocoa Science. Jean-Philippe Marelli, personal communication, February 2012.
Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Personal communication.
Leon, J. & Sgaravatti, E. (1971) Provisional list of genetic materials for plant introduction and exchange. AGPE Misc 71/2. FAO, Rome. pp. 26.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
USDA, ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (2016) List of cocoa accessions held at Mayaguez in April 2016. USDA-ARS GRIN-Global. [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
Butler, D.R., Iwaro, A.D., Thevenin, J.-M., Bekele, F., Sounigo, O., Christopher, Y. & Mooledhar, V. (1998) Individual Institute Reports - Trinidad & Tobago, CRU. Report on the IPGRI project: Cocoa Germplasm Utilisation and Conservation, A Global Approach. Appendix to General Progress Report of Year 1.
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.
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Colombia - ICA Palmira (1986) ? A catalogue of the cacao germplasm at ICA Palmira. ICA Palmira, Colombia.
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