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CRU C5 /5    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: Cocoa Research Unit.
Location: ICGT, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU C5/5

Pod Index: 27.6 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 47.0
Total Wet Weight: 52.2 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.77 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.5 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 203.0 mm
Breadth: 79.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.11 mm
Ligule Width: 2.32 mm
Ovule Number: 43
Style Length: 2.29 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.