Glycine
| Name: | Glycine (Neonotonia wightii) |
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| Description: | Perennial. Most growth in spring, summer and autumn. Twining and trailing habit. Suited to very fertile, well-drained soils. Does not tolerate continuous heavy grazing. Sow a mixture of glycine varieties to ensure persistence on variable soil types. Sow in spring to late summer. Frost susceptible. Inoculum: Group M (CB756). |
| Sowing rate: | 2-4 kg/ha. |
| Minimum average annual rainfall: |
(summer dominant) 1000 mm. |
| Varieties: | Tinaroo (Public variety) Malawi. (Public variety) – Late flowering, better suited to lower pH soils than Tinaroo. (Seed difficult to obtain). Cooper (Public variety) – Earlier flowering type and more drought tolerant (seed difficult to obtain). |
