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MARPER 35    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 35

Pod Index: 25.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 50.0
Total Wet Weight: 56.8 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.80 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.6 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.6 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: slight
Length: 199.0 mm
Breadth: 81.0 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: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.58 mm
Ligule Width: 2.20 mm
Ovule Number: 47
Style Length: 1.82 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.