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La Esmida Roja  Theobroma cacao

Synonyms: CATIE 213, LA ESMIDA PENTA, LA ESMIDA PENTA /ROJA, ESMIDA ROJO, LEPM /ROJA, PENT AMARILLA /ROJA, PENT ROJA, La Esmida Rojo

Bartley, 1997b [BAR97B] Material held at CATIE is likely to be the same as the material held at Tafo, Ghana called LA ESMIDA PENTA / ROJA.

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 Costa Rica, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 10346
   - Local Name: La Esmida roja
   - Year of Accession: 1979

Resistant, sp. P. palmivora (Pod).
Note: Unripe, Attached and not wounded
 Morera, J., 1993

Seed Index: 88.4 (dried beans per 100g)
Productivity: very low
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Colour Dark Purple: Absent
Colour Light Purple: Present
Colour Grey: Absent
Colour White: Absent
Colour Mottled: Absent
Number: 21.7
Maximum Number: 30
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 1.99 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.13 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.7 mm
Cotyledon Thickness: 10.8 mm
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Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: attenuate
Husk Thickness: 11.85 mm (14.8 - 8.9)
Length: 208.0 mm
Breadth: 83.0 mm
Colour: high - intense / high anthocyanin (ridge/furrow)
Weight: 668.0 g
Pods Per Tree: 1
Hardness: moderate
Length Breadth Ratio: 2.50
Note: ratio of distances between ridges within a pair and between ridges of two different pairs = 0.11
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Shape: pentagona
Colour: red
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Colour: reddish brown
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Ligule Colour: very slight anthocyanin (apical)
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Colour: greyish green
Sepal Width: 2.52 mm
Sepal Length: 9.35 mm
Ligule Length: 8.49 mm
Ligule Width: 2.73 mm
Ovary Colour: intense anthocyanin (apical)
Ovary Width: 0.99 mm
Ovary Length: 1.49 mm
Style Length: 1.83 mm
Staminode Length: 9.01 mm
Pedicel Colour: pastel yellow
Note: Translation of Methuen colour codes.
 Reference

Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Personal communication.
Morera, J. (1993) Reaction of clones to Phytophthora palmivora. J. Morera, CATIE, Costa Rica. Personal Communication.
Costa Rica - CATIE (1981) Genetic Resources of Cacao. A Catalogue of the CATIE Collection. J.M.M. Engels, Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Technical Bulletin No. 7: pp. 191.
Morera, J., Paredes, A. & Mora, A. (1991) Germoplasma de cacao en el CATIE entre 1947 y 1991, Programa II: Generacion y transferencia de tecnologia. IICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 49.