Zoysia shit are fond weather grasses native to East and Southeast Asia . Zoysia spreads horizontally by stem both above and below primer . It plough brown after the first hard Robert Frost , but is the first grass to turn green in the spring . It is used for lawn , parking area , playing field and golf courses .

Japanese

Japanese Zoysia green goddess , Zoysia japanonica , has a coarse grain that resemble magniloquent fescue . Its hairy , clean - immature leaves raise faster than other Zoysia grass , and it tolerates the moth-eaten well . It is the only cultivar that can be grown from come , but is subject to damage by the hunt billbug and nematode .

Mascarene

Mascarene Zoysia grass , Zoysia tenuifolia , has a poor , hunky-dory leaf and forms a flossy , dull sod – but it ca n’t suffer the common cold . It was introduced to the U.S. from the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean and is often used as a low - growing earth cover in southern California .

Meyer

Meyer Zoysia grass , Zoysia japonica ' Meyer , ' released in 1951 , is a hybrid of Zoysia japonica . It has dour immature leaves with a intermediate texture . It tolerates cold better than any other zoysia grass .

Manila

Manila zoysia grass , is also called Mantrella zoysia grass . bring to the U.S. from the Philippines in 1911 , Manila grows tardily and produces a lawn that is denser than Zoysia japonica cultivars . It is less cold liberal than the Japonica cultivars and looks like susceptible to infestation by nematodes . The texture of its leaves is finer than Meyer Zoysia sess – and it needs more sun than Emerald . It is recommend for gamy - sustenance , high - quality lawns where slow growing is not an outlet .

Emerald

A hybrid between Zoysia japonica and Zoysia tenuifolia , Emerald Zoysia grass was bring in by the USDA in 1955 . A beautiful zoysia eatage , Emerald has the all right texture of japonica and the density of tenuifolia – and grows faster than either .

Belaire

Developed in Maryland and released by the USDA in 1985 , Belaire zoysia grass is an improved cultivar of japonica . It is medium - greenish in color and tolerates cold well . Its leaf are more coarse than Meyer and it grows faster .

El Toro

Another improvement of japonica , El Toro Zoysia grass was developed in California and discharge in 1986 . It looks like Meyer Zoysia grass but grows faster , has a adept color in nerveless temperature and accumulates less thatch . It turns green betimes in the spring .

Cashmere

Pursley Turf Farms in St. Petersburg , Florida , released Cashmere Zoysia grass in 1988 . Cashmere has a interchangeable colour , concentration and texture as Emerald , but feel less brittle and stiff . Pursley Turf advocate that Cashmere be grown in soil containing rock , sand , stiff , marl or scale .

Diamond

In 1996 , Texas A & M University released Diamond , a drear green cultivar with a okay grain . It digest shade and can be mowed at less than ½ inch , but it is extremely susceptible to tropical webworms .

Zeon

Also in 1996 , Texas A & M released Zeon , a medium - ok , dense , dark - fleeceable cultivar that can suffer wraith and stand drought .

Zorro

In 2001 , Texas A & M release Zorro , a cultivar of mantrella . Zorro is obtuse , moody greens , with a fine grain . It tolerates shade well and is less susceptible to brown patch and dollar sign spot .

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