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SPA 20 [COL]    Theobroma cacao

 Colombia - ICA Palmira (1989)
? A catalogue of the cacao germplasm at ICA Palmira. F. Ocampo Rojas, ICA Palmira, Colombia.

Derivation: Seleccion PAlmira.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Palmira, Colombia.

As these are all progeny from a single fruit they should all have basically then same characteristics. Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Leaf - some unpigmented, large, broad and have an undulating (puckered/crinkled) surface. Fruit - basically similar in shape being broad elongate with slight roughness. Seed - some white. Bartley, 1997a [BAR97A]. Variation seen in flush leaf pigmentation from light green (white); the pigmentation of the stamen, which is often intense; and the colour of the fruit, which is either light green or dark green with a tendancy to be shiny.

Notes:  Lockwood & Gyamfi, 1979, [LOC79A] Collections made in Colombia by Pound, somewhere in the Amazon valley. Very similar to some Ecuador Oriente types.

Progeny of a fruit donated to Colombia by Pound (1943?).

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. The association between unpigmented flush leaves and white cotyledons found in some of these clones is typical of the genotypes from the Napo river. Pound did visit Santa Clotilde, the Peruvian research station on this river and the material may therefore have originated in this region.

In previous versions of the ICGD the SPA [COL] clones were included as synonyms of the group SC [COL] (SC 57 - 76 inclusive). The synonymy has now been reversed as this material was originally described as SPA and is more widely known under this name, as advised by Dr. Bartley.


 

Synonyms: SC 75 [COL]

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List received in 1989   Reference
• Local Name: SC 75 [COL]
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: SPA 20 [COL]
   - Year of Accession: 1994

Pod Index: 22.9 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 46.0
Total Wet Weight: 65.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.95 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.0 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.7 mm
 Reference
Colour Purple: 98 %
Colour Light Purple: 2 %
Size: medium
Number: 41.2
Length: 20.5 mm
Width: 10.7 mm
Thickness: 6.9 mm
Total Wet Weight: 82.1 g
Wet Weight: 1.23 g
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 0.93 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.70 g
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Testa: 5.90 %
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Butterfat Content: 53.51 %
Testa: 8.15 %
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Testa: 8.22 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 162.0 mm
Breadth: 86.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Shape: orbicular
Basal Constriction: moderate - slight
Apex Form: rounded
Rugosity: slight
Husk Thickness: 0.50 mm
Length: 155.2 mm
Breadth: 77.7 mm
Colour: yellow
Weight: 378.0 g
Hardness: moderate
Length Breadth Ratio: 1.99
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Shape: obovate
Length: 273.4 mm
Width: 100.8 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.71
Apex Form: slightly acuminate
Pulvinus Present: Yes
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.37 mm
Ligule Width: 2.77 mm
Ovule Number: 52
Style Length: 2.31 mm
Pedicel Colour: green
 Reference
Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Petal Length: 10.20 mm
Sepal Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Width: 2.00 mm
Sepal Length: 7.40 mm
Sepal Length to Width Ratio: 3.70
Ligule Length: 2.89 mm
Ligule Width: 2.73 mm
Ligule Length to Width Ratio: 1.05
Ribbon Length: 4.00 mm
Ovary Width: 1.00 mm
Ovary Length: 1.25 mm
Ovary Length to Width Ratio: 1.25
Ovule Number: 50
Style Length: 2.00 mm
Staminode Colour: dark purple
Staminode Length: 5.00 mm
Pedicel Length: 12.30 mm
Pedicel Colour: greenish white
Hairs on Upper Surface of Sepal: present
Pigmented Glands on Lower Surface of Sepal: present
Self Compatibility: self incompatible
Note: Translation of Pantone colour codes.
 Reference

Colombia - ICA Palmira (1989) ? A catalogue of the cacao germplasm at ICA Palmira. F. Ocampo Rojas, ICA Palmira, Colombia.
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.
Colombia - ICA Palmira (1986) ? A catalogue of the cacao germplasm at ICA Palmira. ICA Palmira, Colombia.
Trinidad - CRU (1998) Fat Analysis Data. Data supplied on computer diskette by F. Bekele, CRU, Trinidad.