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UF 38    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1995)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: United Fruit selections.
Collected by UF company.
Location: Limon, Almirante, Costa Rica.

Notes:  Selections from the Atlantic coast made in the 1930's.

Bartley, 1998a [BAR98A] The UF series were selected from MATINA material and from material from Ecuador (pers. comm. Soria).
 

Synonyms: UFC 38, UFCO 38

 HELD IN

List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 19663
   - Local Name: UF-38
   - Year of Accession: 1952
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: UF 38
   - Year of Accession: 1994

Pod Index: 23.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 63.0 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.14 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.9 mm
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Testa: 5.10 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: mammillate
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 156.0 mm
Breadth: 91.0 mm
Colour: slight anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Shape: amelonado
Colour: red
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.76 mm
Ligule Width: 2.48 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 2.41 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1995) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.
Morera, J., Paredes, A. & Mora, A. (1991) Germoplasma de cacao en el CATIE entre 1947 y 1991, Programa II: Generacion y transferencia de tecnologia. IICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 49.