MORPHOLOGIC AND BIOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS ON ALMOND ‘TOHANI`CULTIVATED FORMS LEAVES

Abstract

The paper presents a research model of leaf investigation, based on biometrical measurements and morphological observations. In literature, there are onlyfew studies concerning the biometrical investigation and analysis applied on spontaneous and cultivar plants leaves. The article comprises biometrical investigations on 3 PrunusamygdalusBatsch. (almond) cultivated ‘Tohani` forms (cf)(‘Tohani P1/7` – Row 1; ‘Tohani P23` – Row 3 şi ‘Tohani 13` – Row 16) leaves. The measurements included: linear measurements, percentage ratios, angular measurementsand other measurements such as the number of teeth/cm, the number semi-sum of secondary pairs of veins  and the the leaf surface through which it was possible to determine the size class. The biometric measurements were the basis of a mathematical calculation formua of the average values on the studied genotype. Based on the biometric measurements it could make a more complete morphological characterization of the leaves of this almond cultivars plants.