Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortLolium multiflorum
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | |
| Habit | erect | Category | forage/pasture |
| Life span | annual, perennial | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 14 | 30 | 2 | 38 | Soil texture | medium | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 500 | 900 | 200 | 1800 | Soil fertility | high | moderate |
| Latitude | 28 | 25 | 48 | 51 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 2440 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5 | 7.5 | 4.5 | 8.2 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells) |
| Light intensity | clear skies | very bright | cloudy skies | very bright | |||
| Climate zone | desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw), boreal (E) | Photoperiod | long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -4 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 90 | 270 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |
| environmental | erosion control | entire plant |
| environmental | soil improvers | entire plant |
| environmental | ornamental/turf | entire plant |