Trees & Plants

Sugarcane

Udhdhandi

Saccharum officinarum L.

Cultivated in homesteads Apart from sugar production, it has many other industrial uses. The young unexpanded inflorescence is eaten raw, steamed or toasted. Bagasse is used in the manufacture of paper, cardboard, and fuel. The reeds are made into pens, mats, screens, and thatch.

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uses: Apart from sugar production, it has many other industrial uses. The young unexpanded inflorescence is eaten raw, steamed or toasted. Bagasse is used in the manufacture of paper, cardboard, and fuel. The reeds are made into pens, mats, screens, and thatch. The ground and dried cane is reported to be an antidote, antiseptic, antivinous, bactericide, cardiotonic, demulcent, diuretic, laxative, pectoral, refrigerant and stomachic. to in
family: Poaceae
synonym: Arundo saccharifera Garsault, Saccharifera officinalis Stokes
description: Shrubby grass, culm solitary or branched, erect, waxy below nodes. × Leaf-blades flat, to 150 6 cm, scabrous; ligule membranous, ciliate. Panicles ovate-pyramidal, to 90 cm, dense, silvery. Spikelets linear-oblong, to 0.4 cm, pale, surrounded by dense, white-silky hairs, to 0.2 cm; callus densely white silky-hairy. Lower glume to 0.4 cm, papyraceous, acute; upper glume lanceolate, to 0.4 cm, keels scabrous; lower lemma lanceolate, to 0.4 cm, hyaline, veinless; upper lemma 0 or reduced; palea lanceolate, apically ciliate.
native range: India and probably Southeast Asia
distribution: Cultivated throughout the tropics
english names: Sugarcane · White salt
flowering fruiting: Depends upon the cultivars
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads