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COCA 3343 /7 [CHA]    Theobroma cacao

 Chalmers, W.S. (1973)
Report on a visit to Ecuador, Peru, and Brasil, March 1st-April 15th 1973. Unpublished Report. Cocoa Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. pp. 31.

Derivation: COCA river.
Collected by Chalmers (INIAP/UWI).
Location: R. Coca, Oriente, Ecuador.

Notes:  Chalmers, 1973a [CHA73A] Chalmers marked these trees and made the initial collections in 1968. Further collections of both budwood and seed were made on later expeditions in 1969 and 1970.
 

Synonyms: EQX 3343 /7 [CHA], EQX 3343 /7 [A], COC 3343 /7 [CHA], COC 3343 /7 [ECU], COCA 3343 /7 [ECU], EQ 3343 /7, EQX 3343 /7 [B], EQX 3343 /7 [J], EQX 3343 /7 [T], EQX 3343 /7 [U], EQX 3343 /7 [V], EQX 3343 /7 [W], EQX 3343 /7 [Z], EQX A 3343 /7, EQX B 3343 /7, EQX C 3343 /7, EQX J 3343 /7, EQX T 3343 /7, EQX U 3343 /7, EQX V 3343 /7, EQX W 3343 /7

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: EQX-3343/7
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: COCA 3343/7 [CHA]
   - Year of Accession: 1970

Pod Index: 28.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 43.0
Total Wet Weight: 54.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.81 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.8 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.6 mm
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Testa: 6.50 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 161.0 mm
Breadth: 77.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: soft
Note: Hardness <= 1.6 Mpa
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Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 168 mm
Length: 309.0 mm
Width: 92.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 3.30
Basal Angle: 142.4 °
Apical Angle: 53.8 °
Petiole Length: 16 mm
Pulvinus Length: 11 mm
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.51 mm
Ligule Width: 2.31 mm
Ovule Number: 45
Style Length: 2.15 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Chalmers, W.S. (1973) Report on a visit to Ecuador, Peru, and Brasil, March 1st-April 15th 1973. Unpublished Report. Cocoa Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. pp. 31.
Mars Center for Cocoa Science (2012) Accession list for the Mars Center for Cocoa Science. Jean-Philippe Marelli, personal communication, February 2012.
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.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.