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CRU 5B /10    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/10

Pod Index: 17.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 44.0
Total Wet Weight: 81.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.31 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.7 mm
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Testa: 4.40 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: intense
Length: 220.0 mm
Breadth: 93.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 9.05 mm
Ligule Width: 2.44 mm
Ovule Number: 48
Style Length: 2.70 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.