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MARPER 9    Theobroma cacao

 Trinidad - CRU (2001)
ICG,T Accessions database. Database supplied on disk by David Butler, 21 August 2001.

Derivation: MARPER farm.
Location: Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  2 April 2002. Name new to the database from the ICG,T database/accession list [CRU01A].

Pound material planted at Marper Farm, Trinidad which has lost its label has been renamed MARPER.
 

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

 HELD IN

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

Pod Index: 19.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 41.0
Total Wet Weight: 82.2 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.25 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.8 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: intense
Length: 176.0 mm
Breadth: 86.0 mm
Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.30 mm
Ligule Width: 2.42 mm
Ovule Number: 44
Style Length: 2.72 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Trinidad - CRU (2001) ICG,T Accessions database. Database supplied on disk by David Butler, 21 August 2001.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.