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CRU 131    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 131

Pod Index: 49.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 26.0
Total Wet Weight: 32.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.78 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.5 mm
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Testa: 6.00 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 144.0 mm
Breadth: 72.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.57 mm
Ligule Width: 3.05 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 2.67 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.