Mini-Verde? bermudagrass
The photographs were taken under cloudless conditions the afternoon of 13 July, using a 35-mm lens, with Kodachrome 64 film, F-stop=11 and 1/125th of second.  Transparencies were scanned to 4-MB TIFF files with a Polaroid Scanner, and the digital images opened in Adobe PhotoShop, tilted to parallel, brightness-adjusted +35 units, contrast adjusted to +30 units, uniformly cropped, and sized to 380 pixels width, and black plot borders added.  PhotoShop files were optimized with Ulead SmartSaver to JPEG quality level 60, no smoothing.

Originated from Texas, this greens grass was developed by Thomas Brothers Nursery.  After the grass was planted the developer reported that it did not appear to be the same as the grass they had developed.  Whatever this grass is or was, it is very tall, and definitely not a greens grass.  These four replicated plots were planted at University of Florida - Fort Lauderdale in May 1997.  Throughout most of their evaluation they were mowed at 1/8 inch.  Plots were aerified the week of 21 June 1999 and were treated with excess rates of herbicides 29 June 1999 and again 7July 1999, thus the cumulative rates were actually 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X, and 10X.  Mowing was suspended as soon as treatments began.

Mini-Verde? bermudagrass performed overall as greens:  Poor (4.0)

Basagran T/O (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Unacceptably tall for greens.  Very competitive, nice grass.
Basagran herbicide effect on Mini-Verde? bermudagrass
Illoxan 3EC (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Too tall, much injury.
Illoxan herbicide effect on Mini-Verde? bermudagrass
MSMA 6.6 (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Not applicable / too tall.
MSMA herbicide effect on Mini-Verde? bermudagrass
Primo (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  No spurge present, unlike other grasses.
Primo PGR effect on Mini-Verde? bermudagrass
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