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CRU 5B /9    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/9

Pod Index: 27.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 30.0
Total Wet Weight: 53.2 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.21 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.9 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.9 mm
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Testa: 4.80 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: intense
Length: 190.0 mm
Breadth: 85.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: intense anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.31 mm
Ligule Width: 2.37 mm
Ovule Number: 37
Style Length: 1.94 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.