Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Table 3 Fruit characters of each variety from wild and homegarden trees

From: Phenotypic differentiation between wild and domesticated varieties of Crescentia cujeteL. and culturally relevant uses of their fruits as bowls in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Habitat	Savanna	Homegarden
Variety	uas	uas	luch	yaax luch	sac luch
Variety	(wild)	(wild)	(domesticated)	(domesticated)	(domesticated)
No. of trees	60	11	9	16	18
No. of fruits	179	27	24	39	49
Fruit volume (L)	0.664 ± 0.207^a	1.006 ± 0.469^a,A	2.184 ± 0.733^B	2.155 ± 0.840^B	2.267 ± 0.795^B
Fruit volume (L)	31.2%	46.6%	33.6%	39.0%	35.1%
Roundness	1.201 ± 0.150^a	1.132 ± 0.118^a,A	0.979 ± 0.038^B	1.000 ± 0.058^B	0.960 ± 0.041^B
Roundness	12.5%	10.4%	3.9%	5.8%	4.25%
Pericarp thickness (mm)	1.75 ± 0.38^a	1.65 ± 0.28^a,A	2.04 ± 0.48^A,B	2.00 ± 0.22^B	1.761 ± 0.292^A,B
Pericarp thickness (mm)	21.8%	16.7%	23.3%	10.9%	16.6%
Peduncle length (mm)	43.10 ± 7.45^a	29.11 ± 9.63^b,A	16.45 ± 4.75^B	15.38 ± 3.71^B	15.796 ± 3.189^B
Peduncle length (mm)	17.3%	33.1%	28.9%	24.1%	20.2%
Peduncle width (mm)	6.09 ± 0.96^a	7.05 ± 0.76^b,A	9.25 ± 1.40^B	9.31 ± 1.15^B	9.217 ± 1.008^B
Peduncle width (mm)	15.8%	10.7%	15.2%	12.4%	10.9%
Seed number	571.2 ± 215.6^a	342.1 ± 120.7^b,A	398.6 ± 109.6^A	480.5 ± 153.9^A	448.78 ± 174.15^A
Seed number	37.8%	35.3%	27.5%	32.0%	38.8%

Means ± sd are shown in each line above, and the CV below. ^a,b: statistical difference for each character according to Wilcoxon’s sum rank test between uas from savanna and uas from homegarden; absence of significant difference is shown with the same lowercase letter. ^A,B: statistical difference for each character among varieties growing in homegardens; absence of significant difference is shown with the same uppercase letter. For all tests alpha = 0.007 according to a Bonferroni correction.

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