Zoysia matrella seed
LATIN NAME: Zoysia matrella
COMMON NAME: Manila Grass
The Manila grass is the fine, dense turf of the warm lawns, and the short, wiry stems knit into the smooth, green sward. The low, creeping, perennial grass carries the fine, narrow, green leaves and the short, wiry stolons and rhizomes that knit the dense, smooth turf through the warm season, one of the fine, quiet sights of the warm lawn. The plant is a fine, generous presence of the warm garden, and it is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The Manila grass is a useful subject of the plant science, and the dense turf keeps showing up in the work on the warm-season lawn grasses. The way the stolons and the rhizomes knit the fine, dense sward has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the turf grasses, the warm-season lawns and the members of the grass family. The fine, narrow leaves and the creeping habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the Manila grass is a regular subject of the work on the dense turf of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The Manila grass is a fine, generous plant of the warm lawn and the playing field. The short, wiry stolons and rhizomes knit the dense, smooth turf that stands the warm sun, the light traffic and the dry spells with the ease, one of the fine, quiet sights of the warm garden, and the fine, narrow leaves take the close mowing of the lawn. It is one of the fine choices for the warm lawn, the golf course and the soil-holding bank, and it has been written up in the horticultural and the agricultural papers for the dense turf and the easy ways. It is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
Give the new lawn the light mowing through the warm season, and the dense turf will thicken in the sun.
To grow the Manila grass from seed, sow the small, narrow seeds across the surface of a tray of moist seed compost, with a light press, keep the tray in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings come through within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the dense turf will knit through the warm season.