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CRU C5 /8    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 C5/8

Pod Index: 22.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 65.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.21 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.6 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.5 mm
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Testa: 6.60 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: slight
Length: 130.0 mm
Breadth: 85.0 mm
Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.94 mm
Ligule Width: 2.30 mm
Ovule Number: 36
Style Length: 2.05 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.