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POUND 15 /A    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 15 /A [POU], P 15 /A [POU]

'Nanay' Population
Subgroup: 'Nanay I'   Reference

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Current List   ICQC,R Website
• Accession: RUQ 1765     ICQC,R 
   - Local Name: POUND 15/A [POU]
   - Year of Accession: 2022
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: POUND 15/A [POU]

Pod Index: 34.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 33.0
Total Wet Weight: 40.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.88 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.6 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.0 mm
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Testa: 5.30 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 145.0 mm
Breadth: 67.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 138 mm
Length: 266.0 mm
Width: 101.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.60
Basal Angle: 117.0 °
Apical Angle: 87.8 °
Petiole Length: 12 mm
Pulvinus Length: 6 mm
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.06 mm
Ligule Width: 2.59 mm
Ovule Number: 38
Style Length: 2.27 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
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.