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POUND 27 /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 27 /C [POU], P 27 /C [POU]

'Maranon' Population
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 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: POUND 27/C [POU]

Pod Index: 30.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 49.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.90 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.9 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.6 mm
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Testa: 4.40 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: mammillate
Rugosity: slight
Length: 144.0 mm
Breadth: 79.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: soft
Note: Hardness <= 1.6 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 142 mm
Length: 288.0 mm
Width: 105.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.80
Basal Angle: 142.1 °
Apical Angle: 84.5 °
Petiole Length: 13 mm
Pulvinus Length: 7 mm
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.99 mm
Ligule Width: 2.46 mm
Ovule Number: 57
Style Length: 2.03 mm
Pedicel Colour: green
 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.