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NG 3    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: New Ground.
Location: New Ground, St. Ann, Jamaica.

Notes:  Probably one variety dating from 1920-30's.

Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A]. NG may be a code used in Jamaica for New Ground as given in Cacao (Turrialba), vol. 3, 1954. Another possibility is that it is an acronym for Nieuw Gebangan estate in Java. It is very unlikely to stand for New Guinea.


 

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: NG 3

Pod Index: 25.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 43.0
Total Wet Weight: 56.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.92 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.4 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.6 mm
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Testa: 6.90 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 164.0 mm
Breadth: 74.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 118 mm
Length: 229.0 mm
Width: 90.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.60
Basal Angle: 118.7 °
Apical Angle: 85.7 °
Petiole Length: 13 mm
Pulvinus Length: 11 mm
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.88 mm
Ligule Width: 3.76 mm
Ovule Number: 42
Style Length: 2.27 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.