The objective of this work was to evaluate fruit and almond physical characteristics and almond chemical-nutritional characteristics of sapucaia accesses. Fruits were harvested at the stage of pre-ripening and kept at environment temperature for about a week to complete the ripening. The following physical and chemical-nutritional characteristics were analyzed: fruit mean weight, fruit longitudinal diameter, fruit equatorial diameter, fruit longitudinal diameter/fruit equatorial diameter ratio, cover diameter, almond mean weight, almond length, almond diameter, almond length/diameter ratio, almond number/fruit; fat, brute protein, asher and minerals. The data was submitted to the variance analysis and access means compared by the Scott-Knott test at 5%. There were statistical differences among accesses for all the analyzed characteristics, except for fat and brute protein. It was observed a great phenotypic variability in the analyzed germplasm, indicating that this variability may serve as a baseline for future works on genetic improvement.
Genetic resources; native fruit tree; Lecythis pisonis; phenotypic variability
