Phenotypic Diversity of Date Palm Cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera L.) from Sudan Estimated by Vegetative and Fruit Characteristics

Table 7

Correlation coefficients between the different quantitative morphological characters of date palm cultivars.

Variables	FL	LW	TL	PL	PW	SL	STL	FRL	FRW	PT
FL	1	0.742	0.933	0.888	0.543	0.476	0.113	−0.329	0.866	0.849
LW	0.742	1	0.811	0.813	0.875	−0.027	0.525	−0.634	0.678	0.696
TL	0.933	0.811	1	0.805	0.584	0.247	0.125	−0.422	0.802	0.805
PL	0.888	0.813	0.805	1	0.597	0.266	0.441	−0.197	0.899	0.776
PW	0.543	0.875	0.584	0.597	1	0.146	0.661	−0.831	0.365	0.663
SL	0.476	−0.027	0.247	0.266	0.146	1	−0.152	−0.167	0.148	0.452
STL	0.113	0.525	0.125	0.441	0.661	−0.152	1	−0.226	0.265	0.450
FRL	−0.329	−0.634	−0.422	−0.197	−0.831	−0.167	−0.226	1	0.027	−0.347
FRW	0.866	0.678	0.802	0.899	0.365	0.148	0.265	0.027	1	0.784
PT	0.849	0.696	0.805	0.776	0.663	0.452	0.450	−0.347	0.784	1