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 LCT EEN 346    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 346

Location: R. Upano, Morona - Santiago, Ecuador (pasture)
Date: 20 July 1982
Coordinates: 78.10 W, 2.31 S
Material collected: Pod
Altitude: 800 m
Notes: via Sucua-Huambi 6km
Expedition Code: 80EQ
   Allen, J.B., 1987

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List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 346
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: LCTEEN - 346
   - Year of Accession: 2005
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 346
   - Year of Accession: 1995

Pod Index: 26.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour Dark Purple: Absent
Colour Light Purple: Absent
Colour White: Present
Number: 41.0
Length: 26.8 mm
Width: 14.7 mm
Thickness: 8.1 mm
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 1.98 g
Note: expedition data
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 39.0
Total Wet Weight: 58.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.97 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.4 mm
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Testa: 6.00 %
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Basal Constriction: absent
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: moderate
Husk Thickness: 10 mm
Length: 152.0 mm
Breadth: 88.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Weight: 368.0 g
Length Breadth Ratio: 1.72
Note: expedition data
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 141.0 mm
Breadth: 81.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.74 mm
Ligule Width: 2.30 mm
Ovule Number: 39
Style Length: 2.17 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 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.
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.
Allen, J.B. (1988) Geographical variation and population biology in wild Theobroma cacao. PhD. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, U.K. pp. 197.