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Saccharum spontaneum
About
Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane, Kans grass, Bengali: কাশ, translit. kash, Hindi: काँस, translit. kām̥s, Odia: କାଶତଣ୍ଡି, translit. kāśataṇḍi, Assamese: কঁহুৱা, খাগৰী, translit. kahuwa, khagori) is a grass native to the Indian Subcontinent. It is a perennial grass, growing up to three meters in height, with spreading rhizomatous roots.
- Family
- Poaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Saccharum spontaneum
- Slug
- saccharum-spontaneum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Saccharum
- Species
- spontaneum
- Wikidata QID
- Q2249048
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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