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View crop Data sheet EcoPortArachis pintoi
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| DESCRIRTION: Stoloniferous, leguminous herb developing a strong taproot on the older crowns and forming a dense mat of stolons. Stems initially prostrate, becoming ascendant to 50 cm in height. Leaves tetrafoliolate, with ovate leaflets up to 4.5 cm x 3.5 cm. Flowers on short axillary racemes, standard 12-17 mm wide, yellow. The terminal pod on the peg usually contains 1 seed, sometimes 2. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. Flowering commences 20-30 days after emergence. Under good growing conditions and with several plants per square metre, complete ground cover can be achieved in less than 180 days. COMMON NAMES: Pinto peanut, Thua lisong tao. USE: Permanent pasture for intensive grazing systems; ground cover in open situations and under trees; ornamental. FURTHER INF: It is native of the humid tropical central Brazil and grown throughout the tropics, suptropics and upland tropics to 1400 m. Generally found on red, sandy loam river-bottom soils of low to moderate fertility and high aluminium saturation, particularly in low areas, which are wet to flooded during the wet season. |
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| Grassland Index Mannetje L 1992 pp 48-50 [LIG, RAIN, TEXT, DRA, FER, SAL] Tropical forages 2005 Steven R and Staberg P 2005 |