Fresh and dry weights1 and percent dry weight of stem and leaf tissues from salted and unsalted Norway maples grown under ambient conditions or protected from precipitation.
| Treatment | Leaves | Stems | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | |||||
| Fresh | Dry | Dry | Fresh | Dry | Dry | |
| wt(g) | wt(g) | wt | wt(g) | wt(g) | wt | |
| Ambient | ||||||
| Unsalted | 33.2a | 15.2a | 45.8b | 69.2a | 43.8a | 63.3a |
| Salted | 20.6b | 10.2b | 54.5a | 56.6b | 38.5b | 68.1a |
| Covered | ||||||
| Unsalted | 13.0a | 7.3a | 49.6b | 50.4a | 31.5a | 62.5a |
| Salted | 9.1a | 5.1a | 61.8a | 46.2a | 30.2a | 68.2a |
↵1 Each number is the mean of ten replicates. Numbers followed by the same letter in similar columns are not significantly different @ P = 0.05.