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CRUZ 7 /8    Theobroma cacao

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

Derivation: CRUZeiro do sul progeny.
Collected by UWI/Chalmers.
Location: ICGT, Brazil.

Notes:  Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A] Open pollinated seedlings brought back from Brazil by Chalmers in 1973. Progeny of C SUL 7 and C SUL 8 from Belem.
 

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRUZ 7/8
   - Year of Accession: 1973

Resistant, sp. P. palmivora (Pod).
Note: Score: 1 (1-8 Scale). Fully grown, unripe detached pods (4-5 months old).
 A.D. Iwaro et al., 2006

Pod Index: 39.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 47.0
Total Wet Weight: 34.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.54 g
Cotyledon Length: 17.8 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.6 mm
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Testa: 5.00 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: intense
Length: 147.0 mm
Breadth: 67.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 154 mm
Length: 311.0 mm
Width: 105.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 3.00
Basal Angle: 113.0 °
Apical Angle: 59.8 °
Petiole Length: 21 mm
Pulvinus Length: 20 mm
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.11 mm
Ligule Width: 2.34 mm
Ovule Number: 49
Style Length: 2.56 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
A.D. Iwaro, D.R. Butler & A.B. Eskes (2006) Sources of resistance to Phytophthora pod rot at the International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2006) 53: 99–109
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.