Effect of the Harvest Date on the Chemical Composition of Patauá (Oenocarpus bataua Mart.) Fruits from a Forest Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon

Table 1

Physical characteristics of the patauá (Oenocarpus bataua Mart.) from the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve localized in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, and harvested at different times during the season (2009).

Harvest date	Physical characteristics
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
June	1.13	18.20	4.70	13.50	7.61	56.37	41.81
July	1.18	19.55	6.91	12.64	7.13	56.41	36.47
August	1.32	23.77	9.00	14.77	8.33	56.40	35.04
September	1.06	18.12	5.00	13.12	7.44	56.71	41.06
October	1.12	14.50	4.50	10.00	7.93	79.30	54.69
November	1.11	16.00	6.00	10.00	9.95	79.50	49.69
December	1.37	19.30	6.80	12.50	9.50	76.00	49.22
Average	1.17	18.49	6.13	12.36	8.27	65.18	44.00
SD	0.12	2.94	1.70	1.78	1.07	11.71	7.35
CV (%)	9.93	15.92	26.04	14.37	12.95	17.79	16.71

1: bunch lenght (m), 2: whole bunch weight (Kg), 3: rachis weight (Kg), 4: fruits weight (Kg), 5: pulp weight (Kg), 6: pulp yield (%) from the fruits, 7: pulp yield (%) from the bunche, SD: standard deviation, CV: coefficient of variation, means followed by the same letters within each column are not statistically different (𝑃<0.05, Tukey test).