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OC 73 [VEN]    Theobroma cacao

 Reyes, H.E., Perez, A.Z., Reyes, L.C. de & Wagner O., M. de J. (1973)
Catalogo de cultivares de cacao ( Theobroma cacao L.). Estacion Experimental de Caucagua, Caucagua, Venezuela. pp. 131.

Derivation: OCumare de la costa.
Collected by A. Hernandez.
Location: Oc. de la Costa, Aragua, Venezuela.

Notes:  Bartley, 1998a [BAR98A] The region of Ocumare de la Costa contained various cocoa plantations, but the name also applies to the port on the coast and the river valley. The name of any one of these three things may have orginally been applied to cocoa germplasm. The region's cocoa plantations were planted with a pure Criollo variety up to 1860 after which they were destroyed by Ceratocystis. The region was then replanted with varieties more resisitant to disease, which came from Trinidad, but which were not pure Criollo. At the end of the nineteenth Century "Ocumare" was brought to Trinidad and seed was then sent from Trinidad labelled "Ocumare". "Ocumare" material in Venezulela has some criollo characteristics but is not pure criollo, but material sent of West Africa as "Ocumare" would have been the pure criollo type and not the same as is currently in Venezuela.

OC [VEN] includes two groups of selections. OC 1 - 77 are those made in the 1940's by Manuel Palmer and those with numbers higher than this are those selections listed in Reyes et al. 1993.

Those OC [VEN] clones included in the ICGD with a suffix, i.e. OC 60/1 - OC 60/36, OC 61/1 - OC 61/30, OC 63/1 - OC 63/24, OC 73/1 - OC 73/42 may be CIRAD selections; seed progenies of material planted in the Cote d'Ivoire.
 

Synonyms: VLA 5 [VEN], OCUMARE 73 [VEN], VLA PV 5 [VEN]

 Mother to:
P 8 [VEN]    Reyes, H.E. et al., 1973

 HELD IN

List received in 1974   Reference
• Local Name: OC 73 [VEN]
• Local Name: VLA 5 [VEN]

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Moderate Resistance
Note: Phytophthora parasitica (R)
 Reyes, H.E. et al., 1973
Resistant
Note: Phytophthora parasitica (R)
 Reyes, H.E. et al., 1973
Moderately Susceptible
Note: Phytophthora parasitica (R)
 Reyes, H.E. et al., 1973

Pod Index: 16.9 (pods per kg dried beans)
Yield: 900 kg ha-1 yr-1
Yield (wet beans per tree): 4.00 kg
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Seed Index: 62.5 (dried beans per 100g)
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Colour Light Purple: Present
Shape: oval
Size: medium
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Dry Weight: 1.60 g
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Butterfat Content: 50.20 %
Oleic Acid: 1.48 %
Melting Point: 30.0 °C
pH: 5.9
Note: fermented beans
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Shape: cundeamor
Rugosity: intense
Husk Thickness: thin
Size: medium
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Colour: intermediate anthocyanin
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Shape: elliptic
Basal Form: rounded
Apex Form: acuminate
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Ligule Colour: intense anthocyanin
Stamen Size: medium
Sepal Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Size: small
Ligule Size: small
Staminode Colour: intense anthocyanin
Pedicel Size: medium
Pedicel Colour: moderate anthocyanin
 Reference

Reyes, H.E., Perez, A.Z., Reyes, L.C. de & Wagner O., M. de J. (1973) Catalogo de cultivares de cacao ( Theobroma cacao L.). Estacion Experimental de Caucagua, Caucagua, Venezuela. pp. 131.
Zamora, A.P., Reyes, H.E. & Reyes, L.C. (1974) Programa de mejoramiento genetico de cacao en Venezuela. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Cocoa Conference, 1972, St. Augustine, Trinidad. (Cocoa Research Unit, Trinidad), pp. 57-68.
Vivas, J. (1975) Estudio de algunas caracteristicas quimico-fisicas en almendras de cacao de Venezuela. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Cocoa Research Conference, Douala, Cameroun (Cocoa Producers' Alliance, Lagos, Nigeria), pp. 611-615.