Daily Botanical: Sugar Cane or King Grass
Photographed in the countryside outside Santiago de Cuba.
I have to admit that I can’t say with any real authority whether this is sugar cane (Saccharum) or King Grass (Pennisetum purpureum). Sugar cane is a pretty major source of sugar and King Grass is grown as cattle feed. They looked so much alike out in the fields that it could go either way although with the thicker lower stalks I am leaning towards sugar cane in this case.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Beautiful pictures! I wasn’t sure what this either so I went to google images and typed in sugar cane.
http://tinyurl.com/2nvjmz
This plant looks like very tall weeds or just very tall weeds growing in a sugar cane field or sugar cane that has gone to seed.
In other words I have no clue :)
Beth