Plant species | Heavy metals concentration (μg/l) | ||||||
Zn++ | Cr+++ | Ni++ | Cd++ | Pb++ | Co++ | Ba++ | |
A. indica | 85.55a ± 0.05 | 4.30h ± 0.13 | 18.17c ± 0.15 | 0.75a ± 0.05 | 2.80e ± 0.05 | 6.27d ± 0.12 | 6.05h ± 0.05 |
S. sulfurea | 71.85b ± 0.22 | 19.38d ± 0.03 | 37.30a ± 0.10 | 0.00d ± 0.00 | 2.68e ± 0.08 | 8.07a ± 0.03 | 54.0b ± 0.05 |
Z. spina-christi | 65.32e ± 0.08 | 21.07c ± 0.08 | 14.83g ± 0.16 | 0.00d ± 0.00 | 8.63a ± 0.03 | 4.75g ± 0.05 | 58.53a ± 0.08 |
C. sebestena | 63.13f ± 0.08 | 14.17f ± 0.10 | 15.40f ± 0.13 | 0.08cd ± 0.03 | 8.70a ± 0.10 | 5.62f ± 0.13 | 27.67d ± 0.08 |
T. stans | 66.18d ± 0.08 | 28.08a ± 0.10 | 16.72d ± 0.18 | 0.75a ± 0.05 | 7.18b ± 0.08 | 8.13a ± 0.03 | 26.12e ± 0.16 |
B. spectabilis | 71.20c ± 0.09 | 26.18b ± 0.10 | 26.13b ± 0.18 | 0.12c ± 0.03 | 5.33c ± 0.19 | 6.65c ± 0.05 | 21.15g ± 0.13 |
C. lancifolius | 62.93f ± 0.31 | 15.60e ± 0.13 | 15.97e ± 0.26 | 0.17c ± 0.03 | 3.32d ± 0.13 | 7.60b ± 0.10 | 24.28f ± 0.03 |
I. coccinea | 66.03d ± 0.23 | 12.67g ± 0.15 | 13.17h ± 0.17 | 0.47b ± 0.06 | 3.60d ± 0.13 | 5.98e ± 0.08 | 29.30c ± 0.13 |
Statistics | |||||||
F value | 6075.7** | 14619.2** | 7187.5** | 224.9** | 1679.9** | 688.6** | 91454.0** |
LSD at 5% | 0.468 | 0.312 | 0.469 | 0.104 | 0.307 | 0.227 | 0.280 |
LSD at 1% | 0.581 | 0.388 | 0.582 | 0.129 | 0.381 | 0.282 | 0.347 |