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TRD 9    Theobroma cacao

 Barbados - Quarantine Station (1994)
List of clones in the Barbados Quarantine Collection. CRU Newsletter No. 1, Cocoa Research Unit, Trinidad.

Derivation: TRinidaD.
Collected by Warren/Cassie, CRU.
Location: North area of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: TRD 9

Pod Index: 27.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 39.0
Total Wet Weight: 62.8 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.94 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.3 mm
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Testa: 6.90 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 137.0 mm
Breadth: 86.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.75 mm
Ligule Width: 2.57 mm
Ovule Number: 42
Style Length: 2.42 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Barbados - Quarantine Station (1994) List of clones in the Barbados Quarantine Collection. CRU Newsletter No. 1, Cocoa Research Unit, Trinidad.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.