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

moderately frost-hardy

Multiple stems later fuse together to form an interesting fluted trunk with rough bark

Beautiful soft-toothed aloe with stripes from pale green to bright golden-butter yellow

has survived 9° above-ground in container

Leaves up to 18"

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