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CRU 5A /1    Theobroma cacao

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

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 5A/1

Pod Index: 18.9 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 39.0
Total Wet Weight: 85.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.36 g
Cotyledon Length: 25.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.1 mm
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Testa: 4.90 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: slight
Length: 152.0 mm
Breadth: 83.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.43 mm
Ligule Width: 2.35 mm
Ovule Number: 39
Style Length: 2.28 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.