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Mantra White Clover

Mantra White Clover is a very large leafed mid flowering white clover, with semi-erect growth habit, high stolon number and thick stolons, with medium to high growing point to enable better competition with grass in swards, high yields with strong winter, early spring growth, very good persistence and reasonably good tolerance to schlerotinia.

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Description

Mantra White Clover is a new generation very large leafed white clover, with semi-erect growth habit, high stolon number and thick stolons. Improved autumn and winter activity to match high yielding pastures, Mantra White Clover is ideal component of dairy, beef, sheep and silage mixes – such as our premium Vatbuster mix – with legumes making up 20% of the mix.

Mantra White Clover is robust under intense grazing stems – with its medium to high growing point enabling better competition with grass in pasture mixes.

  • Very competitive in pasture mixes
  • High yielding, with strong winter, early spring growth
  • High stolon density and stolon length
  • Great palatability with finer stems
  • Very good disease resistance, including sclerotinia and rust
  • Very good persistence, even under intense grazing

Mantra in pasture blends

Mantra White Clover is available in many of our pasture blends such as Vatbuster – or include in your next custom pasture seed mix.


Variety Mantra White Clover
Species White Clover (Trifolium repens)
Leaf size Very large
Disease tolerance Very good
Pasture life Perennial
Sowing rate 4-6kg/hectare in pasture mixes as the sole clover
2-3kg/hectare when mixed with a small or medium leafed clover
Inoculation group Group B
Sowing depth 10-15mm
Sowing dates Autumn and Spring
Companion species Perennial ryegrass, fescue, red clover, chicory, plantain