Variability of Fruits among Different Improved Landraces and Seedling Origin Tree of Terminalia chebula Retz.

The survey was conducted in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The 20 random fruits were taken from five improved landraces and seedling origin tree for the fruit variability analysis. Results revealed that Pahlu was found statistically superior among all the landraces with the highest average green weight of fruit (61.3 gm) and pulp weight (57.4 gm). The maximum fresh stone weight was in Kallar strain (4.6 gm). Tamber recorded the highest dry weight of whole fruit (20.3 gm). The maximum dry pulp weight was recorded in Pahlu (15.5 gm). The highest fruit length was recorded in Kallar (7.9 cm). Pahlu (4.7 cm) showed the highest fruit diameter among all the landraces whereas; Seedling origin tree was recessive among all the landraces and showed the lowest value of all the fruit parameters and fruit weight.