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LH 1    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 1

Pod Index: 28.6 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 38.0
Total Wet Weight: 50.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.92 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.5 mm
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Testa: 6.50 %
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Shape: orbicular
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 130.0 mm
Breadth: 82.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.79 mm
Ligule Width: 2.34 mm
Ovule Number: 37
Style Length: 1.95 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.