Stylosanthes guianensis seed
LATIN NAME: Stylosanthes guianensis
COMMON NAME: Stylo
The stylo is the low, leafy legume of the warm pasture, and the small, yellow, pea-like flowers hide among the trifoliate leaves. The low, spreading, perennial plant carries the trifoliate leaves of the three narrow leaflets and the small, yellow, pea-like flowers in the small clusters through the warm season, to be followed by the small, curved pods. The plant is a fine, generous presence of the warm pasture and the soil-building plot. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The stylo is a useful subject of the plant science, and the yellow clusters keep showing up in the work on the pasture legumes. The way the plant feeds the soil and stands the grazing has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the tropical pasture legumes, the nitrogen-fixing cover plants and the members of the pea family. The trifoliate leaves and the low, spreading habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the stylo is a regular subject of the work on the warm pasture legumes of the world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The stylo is a fine, generous plant of the warm pasture and the soil-building plot. The small, yellow, pea-like flowers open through the warm season, drawing the bees, and the plant feeds the soil with the nitrogen, growing into the low, leafy cover of the warm pasture that the cattle and the sheep graze with the ease. It stands the heat, the poor soil and the grazing with the ease, and it is one of the fine choices for the warm pasture, the green-manure plot and the soil-building planting of the warm regions. It has been written up in the agricultural and the botanical papers for the yellow clusters and the pasture ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
The stylo is one of the warm pasture legumes, and the low, leafy cover feeds the cattle and the sheep. The plant feeds the soil with the nitrogen through the warm season.
To grow the stylo from seed, sow the small, round seeds 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 appear within a week and spread fast. With the sun, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the yellow clusters will come through the warm season.