1 800 661 4769 dlfpickseed.ca Page 47 2021 Technical Data VARIETY DESCRIPTION VARIETY DESCRIPTION Botanical Name: Ploidy: Pollination: Plant - Spring Growth Habit: Plant - Fall Growth Habit: Plant Height: Winter Hardiness: Maturity: Rhizomes - Creeping Habit: Waxy Bloom on Leaf: Leaf Sheath Colour: Basal Hairs: Leaf Blade Margins: Leaf Blade Folding: Leaf Width: Leaf Length: Leaf Colour: Leaf Pubescence: Flag Leaf Width: Flag Leaf Length: Auricles: Auricle Pubescence: Flowering Date: Panicle Colour: Panicle Length: Perennial Tetraploid Open Medium Medium Medium Moderately Resistant Late Absent to Very Weak Present White Absent Smooth Open Narrow Long Dark green Strongly Pubescent Narrow-medium Long Absent Glabrous Late Green Medium-long Panicle Shape: Panicle Pubescence: Panicle Type: Panicle Attitude: Number of Spikelets: Culm Neck Shape: Branch Pubescence: Palea Length: Palea Width: Lemma Pubescence: Lemma Texture: Lemma Length: Lemma Width: Lemma Awn Length: Glume Pubescence: Glume Length: Glume Width: Glume Awn Length: Anther Colour: Palea Pubescence: Seed Size: Seed Weight: Seed Length: Seed Width: Seeding Rate: Spike Glabrous Intermediate Erect Many Slightly Curved Glabrous Short Narrow Short N/A Short Narrow Shorter than length Glabrous Short Narrow Shorter than length Yellowish green Absent Medium 0.2g/100 Seeds 7mm 2mm 11kg/ac, 25lbs/ac Mathilde Perennial Ryegrass • Excellent forage quality, tetraploid variety • Improved winterhardiness • Improved forage yield • Very dense growth habit • Late maturity KEY FEATURES
