Fruit Traits Diversity Analysis of Wild Litchi in Bobai Guangxi China

Fruit traits of sixty-eight wild litchi plants in Jiangning Town, Bobai County, Guanxi, Cnina were described, measured, and evaluated, and analysis of variance and Q-type cluster analysis were also performed according to the Descriptors and Data Standard for Litchi. The results show that wild litchi fruits from Bobai County, Guanxi, Cnina have a rich diversity of qualitative traits. The number of classification properties used for examining the qualitative traits of a single wild litchi plant accounted for 44.4–100% of the classification properties used in the Descriptors and Data Standard for Litchi. A fairly large coefficient of variation was associated with quantitative traits such as flesh thickness, fruit weight, and pericarp thickness (ranging from 24.43% to 34.71%), while a smaller coefficient of variation was associated with factors such as seed weight, pericarp weight, and flesh weight (ranging from only 1.30% to 1.82%). The sixty-eight litchi samples were divided into five groups by using Q-type clustering, with a Euclidean distance of D≍6.93.