The species Campomanesia adamantium and Campomanesiapubescens are morphologically similar, occur in common areas in the Cerrado, so they are difficult to be separated and identified. The objectives were to analyze biometrics of fruits and seeds of C. adamantium and C. pubescens, and the process of emergence of seedlings, for comparisons between species. In November 2007, 50 fruits of each species were measured of the transversal length (mm) and longitudinal (mm) of the fruits and seeds, fresh weight of fruits (g), number of locules per fruit and number of loci seeds. For the emergence testing, two independent experiments, one for each species, were installed in a completely randomized design with six methods of fruit processing for removal, drying or washing the mucilage, and four replicates with 40 seeds per plot. With the fruits of greater volume, with accumulation of fresh and wider biometrics in relation to C. pubescens, C. adamantium has a potential for selection of promising materials for breeding purposes. Drying in the shade for 24 hours with seed mucilage reduces the percentage of emergence and normal seedlings of C. adamantium, besides the seedlings emergence rate, although this method is indifferent to seedlings of C. pubescens. Under the same experimental conditions, seedlings of C. pubescens have a higher capacity emergence and normal seedlings as well as higher daily frequencies of seedlings emerged and reducing the time of emergence in relation to the seedlings of C. adamantium.
fermentation; gabiroba; mucilage; Myrtaceae
