Submitted by Prem.verma124 on Fri, 23/04/2010 - 13:43
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Sedge weeds of Chickpea:
Cyperus esculentus: Yellow Nut Sedge (Motha)
- Yellow nutsedge emerges as a pale green spike, similar in appearance to grass seedlings.
- Yellow nut sedge is an erect, grasslike perennial.
- The leaves arise from a central triangular stem to form a clump that grows 1 to 3 feet high.
- Leaves are V-shaped, 3 to 12 mm wide, yellow-green, smooth and shiny or waxy on the upper surface.
- Yellow nutsedge seed heads are straw coloured
Cyperus rotundus: Nut Grass or Coco Grass (Motha)
- Although nutsedges are often referred as "nutgrass"and resemble grasses, they are not grasses but truesedges.
- Their leaves are thicker and stiffer and are arrangedin sets of three at the base.
- Nutsedge stems are solid, and when looked at incross section, they are triangular.
- Nutsedge has three long, leaf like bracts at the baseof each flower head.
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