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Calopogonium mucunoides Desv -
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Calopo is a short-lived, vigorous trailing perennial which will climb over any vegetation to form a dense mat of foliage. It seeds freely and regenerates naturally from seed. Calopo has little cold-tolerance, and is restricted to the tropical lowlands with more than 1,250 mm of rain. It is moderately shade-tolerant, and has been used mostly as a ground cover under plantation crops overseas. Because calopo is not very palatable, it has been used to maintain a reasonable legume content in grass-legume pastures under moderate grazing, and as a dry season hay, but it is now rarely sown as a pasture legume. The creeping types of centro are more suitable
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