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CRU 5A /3    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/3

Pod Index: 27.2 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 32.0
Total Wet Weight: 60.0 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.15 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 14.2 mm
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Testa: 6.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 135.0 mm
Breadth: 80.0 mm
Colour: intense anthocyanin
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.21 mm
Ligule Width: 2.66 mm
Ovule Number: 47
Style Length: 2.95 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.