Plants Flashcards

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1
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Crop classification

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Field crops
Horticultural
Fodder
Wood

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2
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Field crops

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Grain crops
Oil seed crops
Industrial crops

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3
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Horticultural crops

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Vegetablea
Fruit
Flowers

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4
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Fodder crops

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Legume and grass crops

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5
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Wood production

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Hard and soft wood

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6
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Grain crops

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Maize
Wheat
Sorghum

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7
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Oil seed

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Sunflower

Soya beans

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8
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Industrial

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Sugar cane

Cotton

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9
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Vegetables

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Root
Leaf
Stem

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10
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Fruit

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Tropical
Subtropical
Citrus
Deciduous

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11
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Flowers

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Fynbos
Garden
Shrubs
Cut flowers

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12
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Maize

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Climatic requirements:
Considerable amounts of moisture
Warm weather

Soil requirements:
Soil with no hard layers
Loamy soil

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Sorghum

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Climatic requirements:
average temperature
drought tolerant

Soil requirements:
Can be grown in many different soils
Fertile, well-drained soils are optimise yield

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Wheat

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Climatic requirements:
Cool environments
20-25 degrees celsius

Soil requirements:
Loam soil
Soils shouldn’t be acidic or sodic

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15
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Sunflowers

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Climatic requirements:
Drought tolerant
sensitive to wind damage in the seedling stage

Soil requirements:
Adapt relatively to a wide variety of soil types
Capable of utilising water from the clay horizon

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16
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Soya beans

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Climatic requirements;
Dry weather
Cooler temperatures

Soil requirements:
Well adapted to wide variety of soils
Soil must have a high water capacity

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Sugar cane

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Climatic requirements:
Dry weather
Bright sunshine hours

Soil requirements:
Very sandy soil isn’t ideal
Can tolerate both acidity and alkalinity

18
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Cotton

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Climate requirements:
Warm temperatures
High moisture

Soil requirements:
Fairly tolerant salinity
Deep soils

19
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Alluvial soils

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Fine-grained fertile soils deposited by water flowing over floodplains