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CRU 5B /8    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 5B/8

Pod Index: 18.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 38.0
Total Wet Weight: 82.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.42 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.8 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.1 mm
 Reference

Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 150.0 mm
Breadth: 96.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.73 mm
Ligule Width: 2.29 mm
Ovule Number: 38
Style Length: 2.53 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.