Sesbania cannabina seed
LATIN NAME: Sesbania cannabina
COMMON NAME: Sesbania
The sesbania is the slender green legume of the wet fields, and the orange, pea-like flowers hang among the fine, pinnate leaves. The fast-growing, upright, annual or short-lived perennial plant carries the fine, pinnate leaves of the many small leaflets and the hanging clusters of the small, orange, pea-like flowers with the red markings through the warm season, to be followed by the slender, thin pods. The plant is a fine, generous presence of the warm garden, the green-manure plot and the wet edge. It is a plant of the open, sunny, moist ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The sesbania is a fast, useful subject of the plant science, and the orange clusters keep showing up in the work on the green-manure legumes. The way the plant grows so fast and feeds the soil has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the nitrogen-fixing legumes, the green-manure crops and the members of the pea family. The fine, pinnate leaves and the upright habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the sesbania is a regular subject of the work on the fast legumes of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The sesbania is a fine, generous plant of the warm garden and the wet edge. The hanging clusters of the small, orange, pea-like flowers open through the warm season, drawing the bees, and the plant feeds the soil with the nitrogen, growing fast into the fine, green bulk of the green-manure plot. It is one of the fine choices for the soil-building planting, the warm vegetable garden and the wet edge of the wild patch, and the fine, pinnate leaves give the soft, green texture of the warm border. It has been written about in the agricultural and the botanical papers for the orange clusters and the fast, soil-feeding ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, moist garden.
The sesbania is one of the fast green-manure legumes of the warm fields, and the hanging clusters of the orange flowers draw the bees. The fine, pinnate leaves give the soft texture of the border.
To grow the sesbania from seed, sow the small, oval seeds about a centimetre down in trays of moist, free-draining soil, keep the trays in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings thread up within a week and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the moist ground, the orange clusters will hang through the warm season.