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At the heart of the Vetiver System is the plant - Chrysopogon zizanioides - formerly Vetiveria zizanioides. This plant, commonly known as vetiver grass, is a clump grass originating in south India. There are many cultivars of vetiver grass but those originating in south India are sterile and non invasive.
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China; Liyu Xu; China Vetiver Network ; Institute of Soils, Nanjing, China ; Email: Liyu Xu vetiver@126.com ... Ismail Hamza; Oil Palm Res. Stat. Golden Hope Plant. Berha; POBox 207; Banting, 42700, Malaysia...
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Vetiver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vetiver - Chrysopogon zizanioides (previously Vetiveria zizanioides ) is a perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to India. The name comes from Tamil. In western and northern India, it is ...
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Shop Vetiver Plants,Shop Vetiver Grass,Shop Vetiver Plugs ... Vetiver is a low cost and efficient plant, used in nearly 100 countries, for soil and water conservation, infrastructure stabilization, pollution control, waste water treatment, mitigation, ... See our Vetiver System page to learn the proper way to plant Vetiver.
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･ 1 Measure the area where you want the vetiver plant to grow. Each plant needs to be placed six inches... ･ 2 Dig holes 6 inches apart. The plants typically come pre-grown with a 5-inch chunk of soil held together... ･ 3 Place the plants i...
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Vetiver Grass: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion 5 The Plant Vetiver belongs to the same part of the grass family as maize, sorghum, sugarcane, and lemongrass.1 Its botanic name, Vetiveria zizanioides (Linn) Nash, has had a checkered history—at least 11 other names in 4 different genera have been employed in the past.
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The greatest block to wider use in this country is the unfounded fear that Vetiver might become an invasive plant--which it most definitely is NOT--and an often deliberate neglect and even scorn of good science (of which there is A LOT) by people who should know better and who fail to properly investigate the true value...
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Vetiver grass does not have stolons or rhizomes. Its massive finely structured root system can grow very fast, in some applications rooting depth can reach 3-4m in the first year. This deep root system makes vetiver plant extremely drought tolerant and difficult to dislodge by strong water currents.
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The Vetiver System (VS) is dependent on the use of a very unique tropical plant, Vetiver grass – Vetiveria zizanioiodes. The plant can be grown over a very wide range of climatic and soil conditions, and if planted correctly can be used virtually anywhere under tropical, semi-tropical, and Mediterranean climates.
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