Derivation: Iquitos Mixed Calabacillo (Mid Channel).
Collected by Pound.
Location: Iquitos, Peru.
Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Main type - very large lagarta calabacillo pods, oval, very smooth, normal blanco. Seeds large, flat, losenge shaped. 'Hybrid group'-large pods, somewhat warty at stem end but smooth and round like calabacillo at the apex. Third group-small, oval, warty pods, dense flowering. Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. The common features of this group of clones are the high ovule numbers (65+) and a specific type of anthocyanin pigmentation in the stamens and base of the corolla. Posnette, 1945a [POS45A]. Petioles are of a type intermediate between those of Nanay (see NA) and Parinari (see PA) types; the constriction is usually short and narrow.
Notes: Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Pods probably collected from at least two groups of trees which were free of Witches' Broom.
Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. They are probably the progenies of two trees, later propagated as the clones P 18 [POU] and P 21 [POU].
Pound, 1943b [POU43B]. 112 plants were planted at Marper farm.
Bartley, 1997a, [BAR97A] The progeny of the individual clones is not documented and it is important not to consider the IMC clones as one homogeneous group.
CFC Project Clone
This clone was proposed for inclusion in the CFC Core Collection. ICQC,R, 2024
Collaborative and participatory approaches to cocoa variety improvement. (2011)
Global approaches to cocoa germplasm utilization and conservation. (2006)
Synonyms: G VI 51, EET 116 [IMP], EET IMP 116, IQUITOS MIXED 67
August 2006. The accession held by this name at the University of Reading Cocoa Quarantine Centre is now known to have been mislabelled.