Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortLemna minor
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | single stem |
| Habit | prostrate/procumbent/semi-erect | Category | forage/pasture, environmental |
| Life span | annual, perennial | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 7 | 25 | 5 | 30 | Soil texture | heavy, medium, light, wide, organic | heavy, medium, light, wide, organic |
| Rainfall (annual) | 700 | 3000 | 500 | 5000 | Soil fertility | high | low |
| Latitude | 10 | 8 | 65 | 67 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 1500 | Soil salinity | none | none |
| Soil PH | 4.5 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 8.5 | Soil drainage | poorly (saturated >50% of year) | poorly (saturated >50% of year) |
| Light intensity | clear skies | very bright | heavy shade | very bright | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), subtropical humid (Cf), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc) | Photoperiod | neutral day (12-14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -40 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | flooding | Abiotic suscept. | drought |
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 0 | 0 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| inter-cropping | Rice | low | high | |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | protein | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | lipids | entire plant |
| environmental | pollution control | entire plant |