Gaura grass

1. Guara Fodder

2. Topics to cover up
• Characteristics
• Varieties
• Preservation
• Antinutritinal Factors

3. Characteristics
• Sun loving
• Warm areas…………..perennial
• Colder areas…………..annual
• Heat and draught tolerant
• White pink or bi-cloured flower

4. Characteristics
• 2-3 feet tall
• Not recommended for consumption
• Need low water supply
• Long bloom time

5. Varieties
• Belleza dark pink
• Belleza white evolution
• Guadi red
• Siskiyou pink
• Sparkle white

6. preservation
• Simple hair spraying
• In hair spray method we simply spray the
flowers or A bouquet with hair spray.
• Keeping dust away
• Pressing….hang in dry dark place
• Dessicants,microwave kits

7. Preservation
• Microwave kits dries the grass and in this way
they preserve for a longer period of time.

8. Anti nutritional factors
• In grasses…………secondary metabolites
• Protection against herbivores
• Physiological effects
• Affect different organs

9. Anti nutritional factors
• Trypsin inhibitor:-It affect the nutritive value
and protein digestion.
• Tanin:-It has a large influence on nutritive
value of gaura.

10. The End