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MARPER 18    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 18

Pod Index: 17.8 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 42.0
Total Wet Weight: 78.5 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.34 g
Cotyledon Length: 25.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.1 mm
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Testa: 4.40 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: slight
Length: 198.0 mm
Breadth: 108.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.62 mm
Ligule Width: 2.61 mm
Ovule Number: 45
Style Length: 2.74 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.