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LCT EEN 251    Theobroma cacao

 Allen, J.B. (1987)
London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project. Final Report Phase 2. Cocoa Growers' Bulletin (Cadbury Schweppes plc, Birmingham, U.K.) 39: pp. 1-94.

Derivation: London Cocoa Trade Est. Exp. Napo.
Collected by Allen.
Location: Ecuador.

Notes:  Allen, 1989a [ALL89A] Seedling progenies are identifed by the suffix /s2, /s3. The numbers in the suffix of the seedling material relates to the genebank/quarantine station where the seedling material was originally sent as follows:

s1,s2... in San Carlos genebank, Ecuador,

s101,s102... at Kew (and moved to Trinidad),

s201,s202... at USDA Miami quarantine station,

s301,s302... at Barbados quarantine station.


 

Synonyms: EEN 251

Location: R. Curaray, Para, Ecuador (primary forest)
Date: 27 August 1981
Coordinates: 76.40 W, 1.25 S
Material collected: Budwood
Altitude: 200 m
Notes: Curaray-Lorocachi, 77km east of Curaray north bank
Expedition Code: 80EQ
   Allen, J.B., 1987

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List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 251
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: LCT-251
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 251
   - Year of Accession: 1994

Colour Dark Purple: Absent
Colour Light Purple: Absent
Colour White: Present
Number: 45.0
Length: 27.2 mm
Width: 13.6 mm
Thickness: 8.3 mm
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 1.85 g
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Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: slightly acute
Rugosity: moderate
Husk Thickness: 20 mm
Length: 182.0 mm
Breadth: 107.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Weight: 904.0 g
Length Breadth Ratio: 1.70
Note: genebank data
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Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 9.50 mm
Ovary Colour: anthocyanin absent (apical)
Pedicel Colour: anthocyanin absent
 Reference

Allen, J.B. (1987) London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project. Final Report Phase 2. Cocoa Growers' Bulletin (Cadbury Schweppes plc, Birmingham, U.K.) 39: pp. 1-94.
Ecuador - Napo (1990) Lista de los materiales en San Carlos, Napo, basada en Informe Final de Allen, 1987, y la lista de CRU, Trinidad (29 Junio 1990), de materiales ya establecidos. Unpublished report, E.E.T. San Carlos, Napo, Ecuador, pp. 2.
EET - Pichilingue (2012) Accessions planted in EET - Pichilingue, Ecuador. Freddy Amores and Ignacio Sotomayor C, personal communication, February 2012.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
Allen, J.B. (1988) Geographical variation and population biology in wild Theobroma cacao. PhD. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, U.K. pp. 197.
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.