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CRU C11 /3    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 C11/3

Pod Index: 32.1 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 39.0
Total Wet Weight: 43.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.80 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.3 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 135.0 mm
Breadth: 73.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.75 mm
Ligule Width: 2.15 mm
Ovule Number: 51
Style Length: 2.09 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.