Red Bay Experiment

Results
When we look at the results we must compare a native to a non-native to determine if the hypothesis is true. We determined earlier that we will compare American holly with Japanese privet, red bay with Florida anise tree, and kalmia with rhododendron. The American holly seemed to have more healthy leaves than the holly but not by much. The holly had 127 leaves with no damage while the privette had 139 leaves with no damage. The holly then had 97 leaves with less than ten percent damage while there were 107 leaves on the privette. With the less than thirty percent but greater than ten percent section there were 38 leaves for holly and there were 24 with the privette. With the section that had more than 30 percent holly had 18 leaves while privette only …show more content…
So far, this helps prove our hypothesis since the non-native plant had less damage on it. Next we have the second group that contains red bay and Florida anise tree. Red bay had a pretty low number of leaves with no damage at 59 while anise had a whopping 136 leaves that had no damage. For the less than 10 percent section red bay has 89 leaves while anise has 184. For less than 30 but more than 10 percent red bay had 69 and anise had 38. In the section with more than thirty percent anise had red bay had 63 and anise had 14. This shows again how the non-native plant is doing better than the native one. Finally we have rhododendron and kalmia. In the section with no damage we have 112 leaves for rhododendron and 99 for kalmia. In the less than ten percent part we see rhododendron has 105 leaves while kalmia has 99. For less than thirty and more than 10 percent we have 39 for rhododendron and 53 for kalmia. For more than thirty percent damage we have 24 for rhododendron and 29 for Kalmia. So all in all, all three of these non-native plants are thriving much better than the