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CRU C3 /4    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 C3/4

Pod Index: 23.1 (pods per kg dried beans)
 Reference

Colour: purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 46.0
Total Wet Weight: 65.4 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.94 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.1 mm
 Reference

Testa: 6.20 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: intense
Length: 170.6 mm
Breadth: 79.3 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
 Reference

Colour: moderate anthocyanin
 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.