Saccharum officinarum
The story
Though sugarcane is now grown in tropical and subtropical regions all around the globe, its journey began in New Guinea and Southeast Asia. From these tropical origins, this giant grass spread across the world, transforming global agriculture and trade as nations sought to cultivate its sweet stalks.
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- Family
- Poaceae
How to use it
Sugarcane is intensively cultivated globally in tropical and subtropical climates. Its primary industrial uses include the large-scale production of sugar from the sucrose stored in its stalks, as well as the manufacturing of ethanol and various other commercial products.
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In the kitchen
Sugarcane is widely cultivated for the production of sucrose, the common sugar we use in kitchens worldwide. The stout stalks of the plant accumulate this sweet disaccharide in their internodes, making them the primary source for extracting sugar and producing ethanol.
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About
Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane, is a large, strong-growing species of grass in the genus Saccharum. It originated in southeast Asia and is now cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries worldwide for the production of sugar and other products.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Saccharum officinarum
- Slug
- saccharum-officinarum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Saccharum
- Species
- officinarum
- Wikidata QID
- Q3391243
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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