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CRU C4 /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 C4/4

Pod Index: 47.8 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 22.0
Total Wet Weight: 29.4 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.95 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.9 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.8 mm
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Testa: 4.80 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 131.0 mm
Breadth: 72.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.33 mm
Ligule Width: 2.59 mm
Ovule Number: 54
Style Length: 2.26 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.