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CU 3    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: CUyamel.
Location: Cuyamel, Honduras.

Notes:  (Bartley, 1997b [BAR97B]) CU 1, CU 2 and CU 3 are pods from the seeds of which the rest of the CU series was grown, i.e. those with a suffix are seedling progeny. CU EN SEMI 1 may well be the same as CU1/1.
 

 HELD IN

 Costa Rica, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 10250
   - Local Name: CU-3

Productivity: very low - low
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Basal Constriction: very slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: very slight
Colour: absent anthocyanin
Pods Per Tree: 2
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Shape: calabacillo
Colour: green
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Colour: greenish yellow
 Reference

Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Personal communication.
Costa Rica - CATIE (1981) Genetic Resources of Cacao. A Catalogue of the CATIE Collection. J.M.M. Engels, Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Technical Bulletin No. 7: pp. 191.
Morera, J., Paredes, A. & Mora, A. (1991) Germoplasma de cacao en el CATIE entre 1947 y 1991, Programa II: Generacion y transferencia de tecnologia. IICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 49.