Aloha Seashore Paspalum
Aloha Seashore Paspalum is a new release from Environmental Turf. It has a slightly wider leaf blade than SeaDwarf and is an excellent selection for golf course fairways, tees, and roughs.
Characteristics:
- Excellent for home and commercial lawns, it provides a deep green color and a high-end appearance.
- Resilient for use on sports fields, Aloha™ stands up to wear, soil compaction and poor water quality.
- Aloha™ provides a good-looking, environmentally friendly playing surface for highly-playable golf courses. It can be used wall-to-wall, in the rough and from tee-to-green. It tolerates a wide variety of mowing heights. It is especially suited for courses where a longer rough is desired and where overly-fast green speed is not a requirement.
- Its salt tolerance makes Aloha™ a good choice for dune stabilization and bioremediation.
- It also works well in flow-way applications where the turf will remain wet or even submerged for periods of time.
Water Quality Tolerance:
- Aloha™ Seashore Paspalum is highly salt tolerant. It can be irrigated with brackish water, gray water, effluent or water with a salt content of up to 22,000 ppm, or in some cases, higher.
- Weeds can be treated with ordinary table salt. Aloha™ will remain unharmed!
- It is perfect for situations where quality irrigation water is not an option.
- Aloha™ is great for seaside applications. Salt spray over seawalls won't harm it.
Environmental Qualities:
- Aloha Seashore Paspalum needs low fertilizer, low nitrogen and can be treated for weeds with table salt. This saves time and money and helps the environment by putting much fewer chemicals into the ecosystem.
- Requires up to 50 percent less water than bermudagrass.
- Can be irrigated with recycled water.
- Has much less nitrogen run-off than many other turfgrasses because less nitrogen is used for fertilization.
Establishment:
All paspalum selections are sterile, and must be propagated by transferring stolons or sod.