Echinochloa pyramidalis

Antelope grass

Tall perennial, usually 1.8-2.4 m high but occasionally reaching 3.4-4.5 m. Grows in wet clay soils, alongside water and in floating meadows. Drought resistant. Provides valuable dry-season grazing or high yields of fodder after coarse rainy-season growth has been burned off.

As % of dry matter
DMCPCFAshEENFERef
Fresh, full bloom, Kenya7.031.48.61.151.9133
Hay, Zimbabwe82.515.633.510.22.438.3499
Digestibility (%)
AnimalCPCFEENFEMERef
HayCattle56.554.841.264.02.01499

References

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