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Dhoincha
English: rostrate sesbania, sesbania

India: jantar, manila agathi, new dhaincha 

Nepal: girkhe dhaichaa


Thai: sano African
The tree
Primarily used as green manure between rice crops or an intercrop in transplanted rice.  It can also be fed to livestock, and in some countries leaves are eaten by people.  Vigorous stands suppress weeds, reducing the need for herbicides in rice systems.  It shows potential as a trap crop for insect pests in soybean, and stems are suitable for firewood.”1

The Bud
“Botanically it is soft-wooded unarmed tree having height upto 7 meters, with slender terete branches; Leaves paripinnate, 8-15 cm long, rachis 5-13 cm long; leaflets 10-15 pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, glabrous, 1.8-2.8 cm long; stipules 5-7 mm long; Flowers in 10-15 cm long lax 3-20 flowered axillary racemes; Calyx 3-4mm long; teeth broadly triangular; Corolla exerted, yellow; Pods torulose, thickened along sutures, twisted, 15-25cm long, 20-40 seeded. Flowering time February to December.”2

Flower
“The fallow period of 60 to 70 days between wheat harvesting and transplanting of rice can be effectively used for cultivation of fast growing green manure legumes. Sesbania aculeate is a potential green manure legume for the rice-wheat system. It is raised for eight to nine weeks as pre-rice crop and incorporated into the soil during the puddling operation of rice transplantation in July. Sesbania green manure increases yield of succeeding crops but the increase is more in rice than in wheat. Sesbania rostrata produces more biomass and accumulates more nitrogen than Sesbania aculeate.”3
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