Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Basil A 1m shrub with heart-shaped

A 1m shrub with heart-shaped leaves with red margins and mauve-pink flowers in summer

The seed pods are flat and crescent shaped

Especially well suited to bonsai

Cold Tolerant

allowed to sprawl

Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Basil A 1m shrub with heart-shapedSunn hemp, Crotalaria juncea L. is popular as a green manure in many tropical and subtropical areas in the world as an organic nitrogen source. Sunn hemp suppresses weeds, slows soil erosion, and reduces root knot nematode populations. When ploughed under at early bloom stage, nitrogen recovery is the highest. Under optimum growing conditions sunn hemp can produce 134 to 147 lb acre of nitrogen (N) and 3 tons acre air dry organic matter at 60 days of