SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Peppers A branch full of hips

A branch full of hips is also fantastic in a flower arrangement

and for the seeds (used to make prayer beads)

This variety has solid green leaves with no variegation

Can get up to 50' in ideal conditions

richly striped with creamy yellow along the edges

SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Peppers A branch full of hipsClassic 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