Feedipedia
Animal feed resources information system
Feedipedia
Feedipedia

Sponsored by

Adisseo

Automatic translation

Did you find the information you were looking for? Is it valuable to you? Feedipedia is encountering funding shortage. We need your help to keep providing reference-based feeding recommendations for your animals.
Would you consider donating? If yes, please click on the button Donate.
Any amount is the welcome. Even one cent is helpful to us!

Good karoo (Phymaspermum parvifolium)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This datasheet is pending revision and updating; its contents are currently derived from FAO's Animal Feed Resources Information System (1991-2002) and from Bo Göhl's Tropical Feeds (1976-1982).

Datasheet

Description
Click on the "Nutritional aspects" tab for recommendations for ruminants, pigs, poultry, rabbits, horses, fish and crustaceans
Common names 
Good karoo
Species 

Phymaspermum parvifolium (DC.) Benth. & Hook. [Asteraceae]

Feed categories 
Related feed(s) 
Description 
Shrublet up to 20 cm high with erect woody branches and linear leaves 0.5-1 cm long. The large flower heads consist of small white blossoms with a purplish centre. A valuable fodder plant especially because of its extreme resistance to drought.
Nutritional tables
Tables of chemical composition and nutritional value 
References
References 
Botha, J. P., 1938. The digestibility and nutritive value of Karoo pasture plants. Farming in South Africa, 13: 63-65, 100-103, 140-143, 162-163, 198-199, 234-237, 304-307, 358, 369, 385
1 references found
Datasheet citation 

DATASHEET UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DO NOT QUOTE. https://feedipedia.org/node/115 Last updated on March 16, 2010, 17:13

Image credits