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NA 120    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1938)
Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.

Derivation: river NAnay.
Collected by Pound.
Location: R. Nanay, Peru.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Fruit - unpigmented, half blanco, long oval, slightly warty, no conspicuous point nor bottle neck. Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Pound describes the typical NANAY as above (pod colour between light/intermediate green) but fruits with different characteristics appear among the NA clones of today which result from seedling progenies of the original collections. Posnette, 1945a [POS45A]. Fan branches are characterised by relatively short (less than 2 cm) petioles in which the pulvini are not clearly separated until the leaf ages, when a shallow constriction may develop. The stamen filaments are always pigmented to some degree, usually heavily.

Notes:  Collected in 1937.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Pods were probably collected from 14 trees which were free of witches' broom disease.

Pound, 1943b [POU43B]. 708 plants were planted at Marper farm.


 

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 Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: NA120

Pod Index: 34.6 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 38.0
Total Wet Weight: 43.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.76 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.6 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: wideshoulder
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 173.0 mm
Breadth: 72.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: intense anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.66 mm
Ligule Width: 2.07 mm
Ovule Number: 50
Style Length: 1.86 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1938) Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.
CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
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.