Plants Flashcards
Crop classification
Field crops
Horticultural
Fodder
Wood
Field crops
Grain crops
Oil seed crops
Industrial crops
Horticultural crops
Vegetablea
Fruit
Flowers
Fodder crops
Legume and grass crops
Wood production
Hard and soft wood
Grain crops
Maize
Wheat
Sorghum
Oil seed
Sunflower
Soya beans
Industrial
Sugar cane
Cotton
Vegetables
Root
Leaf
Stem
Fruit
Tropical
Subtropical
Citrus
Deciduous
Flowers
Fynbos
Garden
Shrubs
Cut flowers
Maize
Climatic requirements:
Considerable amounts of moisture
Warm weather
Soil requirements:
Soil with no hard layers
Loamy soil
Sorghum
Climatic requirements:
average temperature
drought tolerant
Soil requirements:
Can be grown in many different soils
Fertile, well-drained soils are optimise yield
Wheat
Climatic requirements:
Cool environments
20-25 degrees celsius
Soil requirements:
Loam soil
Soils shouldn’t be acidic or sodic
Sunflowers
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