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CRU 91    Theobroma cacao

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

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

02 April 2002. Name new to the database from the ICG,T database/accession list [CRU01A].

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 91

Pod Index: 25.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 42.0
Total Wet Weight: 54.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.94 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.8 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.0 mm
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Testa: 6.10 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 164.0 mm
Breadth: 79.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.93 mm
Ligule Width: 2.31 mm
Ovule Number: 49
Style Length: 2.12 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.