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DE 53 /B    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: Double Embryo.
Collected by Bartley.
Location: ICTA, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Bartley, 1993 [BAR93A] Progenies obtained from double or poly- embryonic seeds.
 

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: DE 53/B [TTO]

Pod Index: 61.6 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 28.0
Total Wet Weight: 30.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.58 g
Cotyledon Length: 18.1 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.5 mm
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Testa: 7.50 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 125.0 mm
Breadth: 72.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.47 mm
Ligule Width: 2.13 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 1.96 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.