PIONEER AGRO TESPOSIA POPULINA (POOVARASU SEED)

• Deciduous trees, to 30 m high; bark 15-20 mm thick, surface grey-black, very rough, deeply vertically fissured, horizontally cracked, forming tessellated, thick flakes; blaze red.
• It is casually known as Crocodile Bark tree due to the characteristic bark pattern.

Seed standardization report:

• Common Name : Poovarasu
• Flowering Season : Through the year
• Fruiting Season ; Through the year
• No. of Seeds per kg : 7000
• Germination Capacity :40%
• Time Taken for Initial Germination 10 days
• Time Taken for Germination Capacity : 45days
• Germinative Energy : 30%
• Plant Percentage : 20%
• Purity Percentage : 100%
• Moisture Percentage : 10%
• No. of Seedling Per Kg : 1500

Pretreatments recommended :

• Soak seeds in cow dung slurry for 24 hrs. before sowing.