Provenance Variation on Early Survival Rate and Growth Performance of Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro Seedlings at Green House: An Indigenous Lowland Bamboo Species in Ethiopia

Table 3

Mean values of seedlings early growth performance parameters between two O. abyssinica provenances (n=30 or 100, mean ± standard deviation (SD)).

Provenance	Culm height (cm), n=100	No of culms per Bamboo clump, n=100	RCD (mm),; n=100	No of leaves,; n=100	Length of Rhizomes, n=30	No of clustered Rhizomes (cm),; n=30
Pawe	61.18 ± 18.36	2.41 ± 1.32	0.26 ± 0.07	25.47 ± 10.87	31.80 ± 7.59	4.30 ± 1.74
Sherkole	67.07 ± 15.78	3.18 ± 1.47	0.25 ± 0.07	30.22 ± 14.40	28.67 ± 6.68	6.20 ± 2.02
t-value	2.313	3.725	0.841	2.506	1.697	3.894
Sig.	0.022	0.001	0.401	0.013	0.095	0.001