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Present in the Texas flora and known locally as: Shackshach crotalaria, chipilin (Texas Distribution by vegetation zone).
Present in the Texas flora and known locally as: Pursh crotalaria (Texas Distribution by vegetation zone).
Present in the Texas flora and known locally as: Showy crotalaria (Texas Distribution by vegetation zone).
www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/cgi/ruled_html_query?colldir=kartesz/mgdata&collname=bonap98&query=Crotalaria   (246 words)

  
  Crotalaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crotalaria is a genus of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs in the Family Fabaceae (Subfamily Faboideae) commonly know as rattlepods.
Crotalaria species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita sericeus and Utetheisa ornatrix.
Crotalaria longirostrata, also known as "longbeak rattlebox" or as "chipilín", is a common leafy vegetable in Oaxaca and Central America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crotalaria   (236 words)

  
 Cover Crop Database: Complete Crop Summary of Sunnhemp
Crotalaria juncea or cultivars thereof are said to tolerate laterite and poor soil (Duke, 1981).
Crotalaria grown with corn should be seeded several weeks before the corn is laid by, or it may be volunteered from a previous crop.
Crotalaria juncea is the species most widely used as in situ green manure for upland crops in the tropics (Yost and Evans, 1988).
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu /cgi-bin/ccrop.EXE/show_crop_40   (3285 words)

  
 Crotalaria to improve soil productivity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Crotalaria can be produced intercropped with other crops.
Sow crotalaria in 30 cm rows between banana or coffee rows.
When it is time to sow the next crop, uproot the crotalaria plants and lay these on the soil surface.
ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu /mba_project/CIEPCA/exmats/crotalaria.html   (154 words)

  
 Chapter 9: Crop Plants and Exotic Plants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The drawbacks to the cultivation of crotalaria are that it -
When the pressure is released, the style retracts through the mass of pollen, and another ribbon of pollen is extruded on the next insect's visit.
Roberts (1939) stated that crotalaria was a source of some nectar and an abundance of pollen.
gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov /book/chap9/crotalaria.html   (437 words)

  
 Crotalaria juncea
Crotalaria juncea is generally considered to have originated in India, where it has been cultivated since prehistoric times, but is now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Due to the shade of its dense canopy it is also used as a cover crop to suppress weed populations.
The presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids is typical of the genus Crotalaria.
www.fao.org /ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/DATA/PF000475.HTM   (911 words)

  
 California Gardens - Crotalaria agatiflora - Canary Bird Bush
Crotalaria agatiflora is a large shrub, or can even be trimmed as a small tree.
It seems that Crotalaria agatiflora is almost always in bloom, but the best blooming time is in the Spring and Fall.
I hard prune Crotalaria agatiflora a couple of times per year to keep it in shape.
www.californiagardens.com /Plant_Pages/crotalaria_agatiflora.htm   (105 words)

  
 Crotalaria
Leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets varying in shape from linear to ovate.
Crotalarias are adapted only to warm climates with a long growing season.
They are resistant to the rootknot nematode and are valuable to reduce the nematode population in infested soils.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/Crops/Crotalaria.html   (113 words)

  
 PLANTS Profile for Crotalaria spectabilis (showy rattlebox) | USDA PLANTS
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Crotalaria spectabilis Roth occures in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
View 236 genera in Fabaceae, 57 species in Crotalaria
plants.usda.gov /java/profile?symbol=CRSP2   (307 words)

  
 ARS | Publication request: Molecular Genetic Characterization of Crotalaria Germplasm: Potential New Crop for Nematode ...
Some of the Crotalaria species could be used as new crop for nematode control and nitrogen fixation.
An assessment of genetic diversity of the Crotalaria germplasm is lacking.
Some amplicons from Crotalaria were sequenced and their sequences showed a high homology (with 89% sequence identity) to Medicago truncatula from which the EST-SSR primers were designed however, the simple sequence repeat (SSR) was completely deleted in Crotalaria.
ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=185498   (402 words)

  
 Amazon.com: crotalaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Influence of temperature and relative humidity on the control of showy crotalaria (Crotalaria spectabilis Roth.) with Acifluorfen (Blazer and Tackle) (Technical...
Crotalaria, a new legume for the South (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture) (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture) by Roland McKee (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1931)
Crotalaria seed morphology, anatomy, and identification (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture) (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture) by Robert H Miller (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1967)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=crotalaria&page=1   (370 words)

  
 Plant Viruses Online - Crotalaria spectabilis yellow mosaic (?) potexvirus
First reported in Crotalaria spectabilis; from Anambra State, Nigeria; by Igwegbe (1982).
Crotalaria spectabilis - vein clearing, yellow mosaic or general chlorosis.
Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria juncea, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, Nicotiana glutinosa, Chenopodium quinoa.
image.fs.uidaho.edu /vide/descr261.htm   (195 words)

  
 Showy Crotalaria
A summer annual weed with relatively showy yellow flowers and distinctive seedpods.
Showy crotalaria is primarily a weed of agronomic crops and may be found from Virginia to Missouri and southward.
Erect, reaching 6 ½ feet in height, stout, and green or purplish in color.
www.ppws.vt.edu /scott/weed_id/cvtsp.htm   (283 words)

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