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The wood of Cabralea canjerana (Vell.) Mart, (canjerana) has high quality and is suitable for making furniture and civil construction, besides having importance in landscaping. The aim of this study was to characterize the reproductive phenology of canjerana, and check the physical and physiological aspects of seeds of different matrix trees located in a remnant in the city of Frederico Westphalen-RS. For three years monthly phenological observations were carried out on 20 individuals trees and after collecting the ripe fruits, seeds were analyzed in the Sylviculture Laboratory of the Universida Federal de Santa Maria-RS, comparing matrixes through the weight of a thousand seeds, water content, percentage and germination and emergence speed. The flowering C. canjerana is annual, persisting from August to December, being possible to find flower buds, concurrently with developing and ripe fruits. The fruits begin to spread in September being possible to be collected during a large period (September to March) and apparently ripe fruit in different matrix trees, do not guarantee high germination power to the seeds of C. canjerana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In nurseries, it is important to determine the number of plants to be evaluated so that inferences about seedling growth are reliable. The aim of this research was to estimate the sample size (number of plants) necessary to evaluate plant height, collar diameter and relation plant height/collar diameter of canjerana seedlings (Cabralea canjerana (Vell.) Mart.) and to verify its variability among tubes, substrates and ages evaluation. An experiment was conducted in the nursery, in which nine treatments, organized in randomizes blocks design with four replication, were formed by the combination of three sizes of tubes (100, 180 and 280cm3) and three substrates (100% peat, 80% peat + 20% rice hulls and 60% peat + 40% rice hulls). It was evaluated the following characters, in ten ages: plant height, collar diameter and relation plant height/ collar diameter, in ten plants sampled at random in each experimental unit. Analyses of variance, means comparison tests and verification of normality were carried and the sample size was calculated. The sample size to evaluate the plant height, collar diameter and relation plant height/collar diameter of canjerana seedlings is dependent on age evaluation. For the tubes, substrates and ages evaluation studied, 18 plants per experimental unit (pot) are enough to predict the these characters average, with an estimation error equal to 10% of estimated average, with a degree confidence of 95%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]