The variation of morphological indicators of Uva Ursi (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi L.) in Korabi Mountain – Albania

Zyber GJONI, Foto KASHTA, Nikollaq BARDHI,

University of Durres, Albania

Agricultural University of Tirana

*Corresponding author e-mail: zybergjoni@yahoo.com

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Abstract

Uva Ursi is widespread in Mount Korab, mainly in soils with high content of gypsum. From the appearance and morphologic construction, the plants represent changes of plant organs in the number and size. This was the reason that the study was undertaken to determine the morphological variation [3, 4, 10] for some indicators, such as the length and number of branches and internodes length, the number of leaves, the length of leaves, the width of leaves and length of the leaf tail. Besides morphological indicators, the weights are made for: the quantity of leaves per plant, the weight of the wet and dry mass and their ratio, the weight of 100 dried and fresh leaves. These indicators are measured and weighed for seven geographic points where the spread and development of plants is very good. In conclusion it was made the data processing and calculation of the correlation coefficients [8, 9] between the measured indicators. By processing and analysis of morphological indicators it is concluded that the plants represent statistically validated changes in the indicators measured for seven points, where the samples are taken. Among the indicators it has strong links, and specifically between the length of the leaf with the leaf width, as well as for plant production

Key words: Uva ursi, indicators, morphological, correlation and sample.

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