Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Poppy with apple blossom flowers on

with apple blossom flowers on long trusses and deep red

and are usually outward or downward facing

It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics

It was previously classified in genus Mesembryanthemum and is sometimes referred to by this name

Sometimes they have dark

Sunhemp / Sunn hemp - Crotalaria Juncea - Green Manure Poppy with apple blossom flowers onSunn 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