Table 1.

Height, caliper, trunk and shoot weight, and weight of roots inside rootball for wild, nursery- and fabric-container-grown laurel oak.z

Measurement	Collected wild	Nursery grown	Fabric container-grown
Height (m)	3.66aw	3.62a	3.54a
Trunk caliper (cm)^y	4.4a	5.6a	5.3a
Trunk and shoot
dry weight (g)^x	2548a	5889b	3752ab
Dry weight of roots
within root ball (g)	674a	1279b	1269b
Shoot:root dry
weight ratio	3.78a	4.60a	2.95a

^zEach value in the table is the mean of 5 trees.
↵^yCaliper measured at 15 cm from soil line.
↵^xTotal of trunk, shoots, branches and leaves.
^wMeans in a row followed by the different letters are significantly different from each other by Duncan’s Multiple Range Test, p<0.05.