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CRU 127    Theobroma cacao

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

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 127

Pod Index: 35.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 44.0
Total Wet Weight: 42.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.65 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.5 mm
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Testa: 6.90 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: slight
Length: 138.0 mm
Breadth: 68.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.19 mm
Ligule Width: 2.13 mm
Ovule Number: 53
Style Length: 2.30 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.