Yellow Serradella

YELLOW SERRADELLA

Ornithopus compressus

DESCRIPTION

  • Plants with deep roots, with thin hairy stems up to 40 cm high.
  • Flowers:  Yellow, with thin and slightly bent pods.
  • Seed Color: yellow and rectangular, yellow, brown, green, or black
  • Thousand seed weight (TSW): 2.0 to 4.0 grams

FEATURES

  • Fertility precursor species. 
  • Adapt to soils with low organic matter and poor fertility
  • Allows expanding the rhizobium present in the ground. 
  • Adapted to well-drained, acidic soils with a sandy to silty texture. Less adapted to clay soils. 
  • Free aluminum tolerant. 
  • No tolerance to waterlogging.
  • It has a high percentage of hard seeds, which allows it to be very persistent.

SOWING

  • Sowing Period: September to November.
  • Sowing Rate:
    • Pure: 6 – 14 kg/ha for hulled seeds and 1-4 naked seeds
    • Mixture: 1 –4 kg/ha for hulled seeds and 0.5-2 kg/ha depending on the species.
  • Compatible species: grasses and legumes for different agronomic applications.
  • Inoculant: Group C

VARIETIES

CHARANO: Early Cycle

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