Alsike clover 'Namejs'
Species: Alsike clover
Variety title: ‘Namejs’
Development: |
Obtained by making a selection |
Pedigree: |
Developed from Swedish variety ‘Tetra’, by obtaining tetraploid plants and making selection |
Maintainer and representative of selection breeders: |
Derived Public Person State Priekuļi Cereal Breeding Institute |
Authors of the variety: |
A. Apinis |
Registered: |
The variety has been included in List “A” of Plant Variety Catalogue since 1 January 2006. |
Morphological description: Brief and clear |
The variety is tetraploid, characterised by long (80-120 cm) medium coarse stems, large, dark green leaves, leaf width (2.2 cm) length (3.2 cm). |
Economic characteristics: Brief and clear |
Ripening - medium early, flowers in late June, early July, the seeds ripen at the end of the first third and at the beginning of the second third of August. Regrowth rate - good, provides 2 full hay harvests during vegetation period Productivity - Green mass crop - high, when mown twice, yields 60-80 t ha-1 |
Quality: |
Nutritive value - high |
Susceptibility to diseases: |
Disease resistance - medium. |
Use: |
For creation of mowed grasslands and pastures · in mixtures, sow together with meadow fescue, timothy-grass and Kentucky bluegrass, · can be used as a good nectar plant, · since 2008, the species has been included in the lists of plants for biological farming. |
Cultivation: |
Grows well in cultivated, moist mineral soils and cultivated grass bogs, places, where red clover grow worse. Sowing rate in mowed grassland mixtures 6-8 kg ha-1, in seed fields 8 kg ha-1. |
For information: |
Baiba Ošmane |