Table 6.

Leaf number and area and dry weights of plants from two Quercus sources from each of three species.

Species	Source	no.	Leaf	Dry weight (g)					Total plant	Shoot to root dry weight ratio	Specific leaf area (cm² g)
			Leaf	leaf	shoot	Root type^{^z}
			area (cm²)	leaf	shoot	fine	coarse	total
Q. cerris	Sellano	28.9AB^{^y}	680.9BC	3.8A	4.1A	2.0A	5.1B	7.1A	15.0A	0.6A	179.2D
Q. cerris	Amiata	16.8A	385.0A	2.7A	3.1A	3.0BC	8.0C	11.0B	16.8A	0.3A	142.6C
Q. pubescens	Bazzano	39.2B	552.4B	42.2C	32.7B	2.3AB	3.2A	5.5A	80.5C	5.9C	13.1A
Q. pubescens	Cerreta	9.3AB	275.6A	20.5B	14.3A	2.1A	4.3AB	6.4A	41.1B	2.2B	13.4A
Q. robur	Pineta	32.7AB	736.6C	48.5C	50.8CB	2.6BC	3.8A	6.4A	105.7D	7.6D	15.2B
Q. robur	Cascine	79.7C	1060.4D	69.7D	60.8C	3.3C	4.1AB	7.4A	133.0E	9.4E	15.2B

↵^zFine roots were < 2 mm in diameter; coarse roots were ≥ 2 mm diameter.
↵^yMeans within a column followed by different letters are significantly different from each other at the α = 0.05 level using the Student-Neuman-Kuels test. Each value is the mean of 36 plants.