Beda Beda (Medicago)

The stem is branched, 70-150 cm tall, forms a bush.
The leaves are three-lobed, compound, with small lateral leaflets at the base of the leaf band, the color is from light green to dark green. The leaf plate is elliptic , lanceolate or almost round.
A panicle consisting of up to 12-16 flowers (rarely cylindrical or head-shaped). The flower of blue clover is blue, the flower of yellow clover is yellow, and the peak of hybrid clover is blue-ye llow.
The fruit is a seeded, sickle-shaped or spiral 2-3 twisted pod. The seed is yellow or yellow-brown oval-kidney-shaped, small; there are 5-7 seeds in the pod; The weight of 1000 seeds is 1.8 — 2.7 g.
The root system is axillary, develops strongly, is branched, penetrates deep into the ground (7-10 m and more). Nodule bacteria that absorb free nitrogen from the air develop in the growths of 4-5 thin stems. In perennial species of alfalfa, new stems grow from the buds in the upper part of the stem (root neck) every year. A well-developed root system of B. produces a root mass of 80-120 cm equivalent to 30-40 t of manure per 1 ha of plowed layer of soil in two-three years.
Economic importance. It is a fodder crop rich in vitamin B and protein. 100 kg of its blue mass contains 21.7 nutritional units and 4.1 kg of digestible protein; 100 kg of hay contains 45.3 nutritional units and 10.3 kg of digestible protein. Bedapichani contains 0.35-0.40% phosphorus, 0.25-0.3% calcium and other trace elements. Digestibility of alfalfa feed reaches 70-80%.