Morfologi Buah Selama Tahap Perkembangan Buah Merah (Pandan

Abstract

<em>This research was aimed to describe the morphological characteristics of red fruit in each period of fruit development in order to obtain information appropriate harvest time.� Three cultivars of Pandanus conoideus was used� namely cultivar Monsor, Memeri, and Edewewits that grown in the Garden Experiments UNIPA Manokwari, West Papua. The result of this research showed that the development of red fruit divided in four stages i.e. young fruit, unripe, ripe and over-ripe.� Development of young fruit until ripe for Monsor and Memeri achieved within 4,5 months, while for Edewewits about 8,5 months.� The position of fruit in trees was change depending on the fruit development stage.� The grain formation was started at young fruit stage and the initiation of fruit was occurred at unripe stage and reached maximum at ripe stage.� Grains size on the ripe fruit stage has a maximum and if pressed will remove the oil. The color of the fruit surface of each cultivars vary from pink (young fruits) became dark red (ripe fruits). At the young fruit and medium-ripe, grains fruit are difficult regardless of the pith, and in contrast to easily removed at the ripe fruit.� Harvesting should be on a ripe level, to obtain maximum quality.�</em>