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Crotalaria juncea

Description
Life form	herb	Physiology	multi stem
Habit	erect	Category	forage/pasture, materials, medicinals & aromatic, cover crop, environmental
Life span	annual	Plant attributes	grown on large scale

Ecology
	Optimal		Absolute			Optimal	Absolute
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Soil depth	medium (50-150 cm)	medium (50-150 cm)
Temperat. requir.	20	30	4	40	Soil texture	medium	medium, light
Rainfall (annual)	500	1500	200	4300	Soil fertility	moderate	low
Latitude	17	17	30	30	Soil Al. tox
Altitude	---	---	-	1500	Soil salinity	low (<4 dS/m)	medium (4-10 dS/m)
Soil PH	6	7	5	8.4	Soil drainage	well (dry spells)	well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry)
Light intensity	very bright	very bright	very bright	cloudy skies

Climate zone	tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw)	Photoperiod	short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours)
Killing temp. during rest	-2	Killing temp. early growth	-1
Abiotic toler.		Abiotic suscept.
Introduction risks.

Cultivation
			Min	Max
Product. system		Crop cycle	60	160
Cropping system	Subsystem	Companion species	Level of mechanization	Labour intensity
	inter-cropping	tobacco, vegetables, dry grains, rice, maize, cotton, sugarcane, pineapples, coffee, orchard crops

(at most All5102550100)

Uses
Main use	Detailed use	Used part
material	fibres	bark
animal food (feed)	minerals	entire plant
animal food (feed)	vitamins	entire plant
environmental	manure/fertilizer	entire plant
environmental	agroforestry	entire plant
environmental	nitrogen fixation	roots
environmental	cover crop	entire plant
medicinal	blood system applications	seeds
poison	mammals	seeds