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CRU C6 /22    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 C6/22

Pod Index: 22.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 47.0
Total Wet Weight: 64.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.95 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.8 mm
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Testa: 5.80 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: absent
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: intense
Length: 178.0 mm
Breadth: 83.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.10 mm
Ligule Width: 2.19 mm
Ovule Number: 38
Style Length: 1.97 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.