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CRU C3 /5    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 C3/5

Pod Index: 19.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 45.0
Total Wet Weight: 78.8 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.13 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.2 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.0 mm
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Testa: 5.40 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: intense
Length: 192.0 mm
Breadth: 87.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.67 mm
Ligule Width: 3.36 mm
Ovule Number: 46
Style Length: 2.34 mm
Pedicel Colour: green
 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.