SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Fig moderately frost-hardy

moderately frost-hardy

wounds and other skin conditions

They are often confused for other psychotria varieties

Hardy in our climate

it will bloom copious sheaves of vanilla-scented yellow bell-shaped flower spikes

SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Fig moderately frost-hardyClassic sweet sugarcane 70% of the world's refined sugar comes from this plant and its hybrids! Really cool huge grass up to 10x10 feet! Long, gray green leaves with dramatic pale purple pink pampas like plumes 2 3 feet taller in fall. Sun to part shade. Used in India for its fibers and stems, and medicinally. Youngest leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. First domesticated in New Guinea, grown for sugar and ethanol. Sugar can be extracted, and the