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Table 4 Vegetative 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

(wild)

(wild)

(domesticated)

(domesticated)

(domesticated)

No. of trees

59

22

18

22

15

Tree height (m)

5.51 ± 1.49a

5.02 ± 2.37a,A

2.78 ± 0.96B

3.80 ± 1.19A,B

4.04 ± 1.24A,B

27.0%

47.2%

34.5%

31.3%

30.7%

Trunk height (m)

0.59 ± 0.46a

0.89 ± 0.55a,A

0.62 ± 0.44A

0.45 ± 0.38A

0.46 ± 0.41A

77.9%

61.8%

71.0%

84.4%

89.1%

Trunk perimeter (m)

1.07 ± 0.38a

0.73 ± 0.53b,A

0.49 ± 0.18A

0.63 ± 0.28A

0.57 ± 0.20A

35.5%

72.6%

36.7%

44.4%

35.1%

Crown area (m 2 )

36.37 ± 19.71a

26.23 ± 24.98a,A

10.70 ± 8.12A

23.36 ± 11.91A

18.52 ± 11.24A

54.2%

95.2%

75.9%

50.9%

60.7%

No. main branches

2.78 ± 0.93a

2.32 ± 0.57a,A

2.22 ± 0.65A

2.36 ± 0.66A

2.27 ± 0.46A

33.5%

24.6%

29.3%

28.0%

20.3%

No. leaves/bundle

6.25 ± 1.60a

5.45 ± 2.19a,A

4.20 ± 1.39A

4.42 ± 1.97A

4.33 ± 2.15A

25.6%

40.1%

33.1%

44.6%

49.6%

Leaf area (cm 2 )

9.38 ± 2.70a

18.04 ± 12.35b,A

24.85 ± 15.94A,B

31.09 ± 15.30B

30.05 ± 8.55B

28.8%

68.5%

64.1%

49.2%

28.5%

Leaf shape PC1

−0.041 ± 0.041a

−0.001 ± 0.057b,A

0.063 ± 0.043B

0.052 ± 0.035B

0.012 ± 0.042A

Leaf shape PC2

−0.003 ± 0.013a

0.002 ± 0.021a,A

0.002 ± 0.014A

0.001 ± 0.013A

0.003 ± 0.009A

  1. 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.