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CRU C6 /14    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 C6/14

Pod Index: 22.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 57.0
Total Wet Weight: 71.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.78 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.9 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.4 mm
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Testa: 5.30 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: absent
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: smooth
Length: 173.0 mm
Breadth: 92.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.75 mm
Ligule Width: 3.10 mm
Ovule Number: 62
Style Length: 2.57 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.