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LH 5    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: Las Hermanas.
Location: Las Hermanas (?), Trinidad and Tobago.

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: LH 5

Pod Index: 30.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 53.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.90 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.4 mm
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Testa: 5.00 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: slight
Length: 154.0 mm
Breadth: 75.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 139 mm
Length: 282.0 mm
Width: 107.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.60
Basal Angle: 120.7 °
Apical Angle: 79.4 °
Petiole Length: 21 mm
Pulvinus Length: 15 mm
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 8.74 mm
Ligule Width: 2.99 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 2.01 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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 Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.