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Honey clover
Melilotus albus
About
Melilotus albus, known as honey clover, white melilot (UK), Bokhara clover (Australia), white sweetclover (US), and sweet clover, is a nitrogen-fixing legume in the family Fabaceae. Melilotus albus is considered a valuable honey plant and source of nectar and is often grown for forage. Its characteristic sweet odor, intensified by drying, is derived from coumarin.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melilotus albus
- Slug
- melilotus-albus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Melilotus
- Species
- albus
- Wikidata QID
- Q158596
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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