Biometria de frutos de Hancornia speciosa (Gomes) de ocorrência natural no Cerrado do Estado de Goiás

Abstract

Mangaba tree (H. speciosa) is a fruit tree, from Brazil and it is found in various regions of Brazil, since coastal tablelands and lower coastal of Northeast and Savanna of West Center and Southeast regions. This search is conducted with the objective to characterize fruit of different plants and areas of natural occurrences and in each one, randomly; trees in full production were selected. Among these plants, at about twelve fruit were collected. Then, five ripe fruit per plant were separated, and evaluated the characteristics such as: mass, diameter transversal and along the length, number of seeds and total mass of seeds per fruit. The data had been submitted to the analysis of variance and the average was compared by the Tukey test at 5% of probability. The Hancornia speciosa trees present high levels of phenotypic variation as physic characteristics of fruit between and inside areas. The remanescent areas, mangaba trees occurrence, where were collected the samples, has different performance as fruit mass.