Brachiaria brizantha cultivar Xaraés (Mg-5)

Brachiaria brizantha cultivar Xaraés (Mg-5) is a high-yielding tropical forage grass, notable for its high green mass production and excellent nutritional value. Ideal for rotational grazing, it exhibits good regrowth and adaptation to medium-fertility soils. It is recommended for intensive production systems in warm climate regions.

Technical Information:

Digestibility: High

Suitability: High

Drought tolerance: Medium

Cold tolerance: Medium

Tolerance to flooding: Low

Fertility requirement: Medium

Resistance to Spittlebug: Medium

Agronomic Characteristics:

Growth Habits: Tufted, Tillering, and Decumbent

Average height: 1.20 to 1.60 m

Minimum annual rainfall: 800 mm

Protein by dry matter: 10 to 24% per ton.

Dry matter production/ha/year: 10 to 24 tons.

Pure seeds per gram: 100 seeds

Desirable plants/m2: 20 to 40 plants

Average establishment time: 120 days