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CRU 106    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: Cocoa Research Unit.
Location: ICGT, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 106

Pod Index: 20.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 84.5 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.32 g
Cotyledon Length: 25.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 14.2 mm
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Testa: 5.10 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 167.0 mm
Breadth: 85.0 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: 7.48 mm
Ligule Width: 1.79 mm
Ovule Number: 40
Style Length: 1.83 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.