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CRU 126    Theobroma cacao

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

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

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 United Kingdom, International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, Reading (ICQC,R)
Current List   ICQC,R Website
• Accession: RUQ 1698     ICQC,R 
   - Local Name: CRU 126
   - Year of Accession: 2012
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 126

Pod Index: 17.1 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 46.0
Total Wet Weight: 93.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.27 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.1 mm
Cotyledon Width: 14.8 mm
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Testa: 5.40 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: mammillate
Rugosity: intense
Length: 188.0 mm
Breadth: 92.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: intense anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 9.22 mm
Ligule Width: 2.17 mm
Ovule Number: 43
Style Length: 2.15 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.