Correlation Studies Between Different Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Terminalia bellirica (Roxb.) Fruits

Terminalia bellirica is a multipurpose medicinal tree species. The fruits of the species are used in many local, ayurvedic medicines and as important constituent of “Triphala”. Physico-chemical traits of Terminalia bellirica fruits like fresh weight, diameter, length, weight of fruit pulp, moisture content, dry weight, seed weight, TSS, acidity, total sugar, reducing and non reducing sugar in fruits of Terminalia bellirica were quantitatively measured for correlation studies. The correlation studies revealed that there was highly significant and positive correlation between weight of fresh fruit with weight of fruit pulp, weight of dry fruit, diameter of fruit and with seed weight while T.S.S. exhibited significant and negative correlation with non reducing sugar.