Planchuelo, GregCatalán, PabloDelgado Sáez, Juan AntonioMurciano Cespedosa, Antonio2023-06-172023-06-172019-09-18https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/14212Data in Brief, Volume 26, October 2019, 104521 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.1045219. Related research article G. Planchuelo, P. Catalán an, J.A. Delgado, A. Murciano, Estimating wind dispersal potential in Ailanthus altissima: The need to consider the three-dimensional structure of samaras, Plant Biosyst. 151 (2017) 316e322, https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2016.1174170.The data presented in this paper is supporting the research article “Estimating wind dispersal potential in Ailanthus altissima: The need to consider the three-dimensional structure of samaras” [1]. We analyzed the estimation of samara's wind dispersal potential through a group of morphological variables that succeed in describing the three-dimensional nature of samaras. We present here a dataset containing 8 morphological variables of 200 samaras belonging to 5 different individuals of the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle. Additionally, we present the average descent velocity of each of the samaras, which was recorded by releasing 5 times each samara under controlled and reproducible conditions. The data set is structured in a single spreadsheet where we also included the samara and the individual identity code of the tree.engdatasethttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104521https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2016.1174170.open access57458Ailanthus altissimadiaspore morphologysamarathree-dimensional structurewind dispersal potentialBotánica (Biología)Ecología (Biología)2417.03 Botánica General2401.06 Ecología animal