Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortMelilotus indica
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | |
| Habit | Category | forage/pasture, environmental, weed | |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 15 | 25 | 4 | 28 | Soil texture | heavy, medium | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 600 | 900 | 250 | 1300 | Soil fertility | high | moderate |
| Latitude | 5 | 5 | 35 | 50 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 1650 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 6.5 | 7 | 5 | 8.5 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | clear skies | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical dry summer (Cs), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -2 | Killing temp. early growth | -1 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. | can become a weed |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 120 | 210 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| environmental | erosion control | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |