SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Peppers Biennial native to Japan

Biennial native to Japan

and for the seeds (used to make prayer beads)

Easy to grow succulent with wildly spiky

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

SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Peppers Biennial native to JapanClassic 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