Vegetative Traits of Some Date Palm Cultivars Grown in Sebha

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to study the vegetative characters of eight date palm cultivars grown at the farm of the Agriculture Research Center at Sebha, Libya. The cultivars were: Asbeer, Adhwee,Awreeg, Tasfert, Taghyat, Taleese, Saiedi and Khadrai. The results indicated that significant differences in traits of the studied cultivars, the trunks of trees were the tallest for the cultivars of Adhwee and Awreeg, and the trunks of Saiedi were the shortest even though all the trees were at the same age , the trunks of the rest of cultivars were showed no significant differences. The trunk circumferences of Taghyat were 159cm and the rest of cultivars ranged between 187-237 cm. The least number of leaves per tree were for khadhrai and Saiedi with an average of 65 leaves per tree ,and the average of the rest of cultivars were78 leaves per tree. The number of leaflet per leaf