Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortSesbania sesban
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | shrub, tree | Physiology | single stem, multi stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | forage/pasture, vegetables, materials, forest/wood, environmental |
| Life span | perennial | Plant attributes | |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | medium (50-150 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 18 | 28 | 10 | 45 | Soil texture | heavy, medium, light | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 800 | 2000 | 350 | 2500 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | - | - | 20 | 27 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | 100 | 2300 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | high (>10 dS/m)) |
| Soil PH | 5 | 7 | 4 | 9.9 | Soil drainage | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) | 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), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -5 | Killing temp. early growth | -1 |
| Abiotic toler. | flooding | Abiotic suscept. | fire |
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | small scale (manual), large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 120 | 365 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| fallow | Macroptilium atropurpureum, Tephrosia vogelii, Crotalaria grahamiana | low | low | |
| alley cropping | Brachiaria mutica, Brachiaria decumbens | medium | medium | |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| food & beverage | vitamins | flowers |
| food & beverage | minerals | flowers |
| food & beverage | vitamins | leaves |
| food & beverage | minerals | leaves |
| food & beverage | minerals | seeds |
| food & beverage | protein | seeds |
| poison | mammals | seeds |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | leaves |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | leaves |
| material | fibres | stems |
| fuels | fuelwood | bark |
| fuels | charcoal | bark |
| environmental | manure/fertilizer | leaves |
| environmental | shade & shelter | entire plant |
| environmental | support | entire plant |
| environmental | windbreak | entire plant |
| environmental | soil improvers | entire plant |
| environmental | living fence | entire plant |
| environmental | erosion control | entire plant |
| environmental | nitrogen fixation | roots |
| environmental | agroforestry | entire plant |