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CRU 111    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: Cocoa Research Unit.
Location: ICGT, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: CRU111
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 111

Pod Index: 17.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 35.0
Total Wet Weight: 83.4 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.64 g
Cotyledon Length: 25.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.4 mm
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Testa: 5.90 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 153.0 mm
Breadth: 85.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.33 mm
Ligule Width: 2.36 mm
Ovule Number: 42
Style Length: 2.25 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.