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VEN A 58 [ICT]    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: VENezuelan A.
Collected by Bartley.
Location: ICTA, Venezuela.

Notes:  Selections made 1955-57.

Riviera & Salas, 1989a [RIV89A], Riviera, 1989a [RIV89B]. A collection of 120 elite plants noted for high pod production (100-300 pods) and resistance to Black pod. Selected from the farms "San Ignacio", "La Soledad", "Villa Edna", "San Agustín Ixtacapa" and "Buenos Aires" in San Antonio and "El Recreo" in Cuyotenango in the state of Suchitepéquez. From these selections, 40 commercial clones were selected.

Lockwood, 1973a [LOC73A]. Matina x Criollo hybrids, the criollo being of different origin to the Mexican Soconusco type.


 

Synonyms: VEN 58 /A [ICT], VEN 58 [ICT], VEN 58 /B [ICT]

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Accession: 1078
   - Local Name: VEN 58
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: VEN A 58 [ICT]

Pod Index: 20.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 46.0
Total Wet Weight: 60.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.05 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.0 mm
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Testa: 5.70 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 157.0 mm
Breadth: 84.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 152 mm
Length: 309.0 mm
Width: 117.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.70
Basal Angle: 128.6 °
Apical Angle: 66.6 °
Petiole Length: 18 mm
Pulvinus Length: 16 mm
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.26 mm
Ligule Width: 2.53 mm
Ovule Number: 42
Style Length: 1.71 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
CEPEC (2012) Accession list for the CEPEC (Bahia, Brazil) collection. Dr. José Luis Pires, personal communication, February 2012.
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.