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POUND 8 /C    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1943)
Cacao and witches' broom disease. Report on a recent visit to the Amazon territory of Peru, September 1942-February 1943. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 73-91.

Derivation: POUND (collector).
Collected by Pound.
Location: Peru.

Notes:  Chalmers, 1968 [CHA68A] Trees were marked and initial collections made in 1968. Chalmers revisited the area in 1970 (Chalmers, 1970a [CHA70A]), recollecting from some trees and making new collections from newly marked trees. Further collections were made in 1972 (Chalmers, 1972b [CHA72B]).
 

Synonyms: PERU 8 /C [POU], P 8 /C [POU]

'Nanay' Population
Subgroup: 'Nanay I'   Reference

 HELD IN

 Malaysia, Agricultural Research Centre (ARC)
List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: P 8 /C [POU]
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: POUND 8/C [POU]

Pod Index: 37.2 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 32.0
Total Wet Weight: 38.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.84 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.3 mm
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Testa: 5.80 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 134.0 mm
Breadth: 70.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intermediate anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 131 mm
Length: 256.0 mm
Width: 101.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.60
Basal Angle: 107.8 °
Apical Angle: 91.1 °
Petiole Length: 12 mm
Pulvinus Length: 4 mm
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Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 8.00 mm
Ovary Colour: moderate anthocyanin (apical)
Pedicel Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 5.99 mm
Ligule Width: 2.46 mm
Ovule Number: 46
Style Length: 2.07 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1943) Cacao and witches' broom disease. Report on a recent visit to the Amazon territory of Peru, September 1942-February 1943. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 73-91.
Motamayor, J.C., Lachenaud, P., da Silva e Mota, J.W., Loor, R., Kuhn, D.N., Brown, J.S. & Schnell, R.J. (2008) Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao L). PLoS ONE 3(10): e3311. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003311
Malaysia - ARC Tuaran (1990) List of clones held in the Dept. of Agriculture's collection, at Sabah, Tuaran, Malaysia. E.B. Tay, Malaysian Cocoa Board, Malaysia. Personal Communication.
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.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.