Correlations Between Degree of Petal Fusion, Leaf Size and Fruit Size: A Case in Syzygium (Myrtaceae)

Abstract

Syzygium is one of large genera of the flowering plants. In order 10 simplify the identificalion, a classification is required, e.g. based on degree of pelal fUSion, leaf size and fruit size. Due 10 variations of vegetative and generative characters, a correlation analysis was carried out. The aim of this research is to know the correlation between degree of petal fusion, leaf length and fruit diameter. The result of this research showed that there is positive correlation between those three variables. The increase of leaf size will increase fruit size and petal lobe depth.