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Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose , [ 1 ] which accumulates in the stalk internodes .
S. officinarum is one of the most productive and most intensively cultivated kinds of sugarcane. It can interbreed with other sugarcane species, such as S. sinense and S. barberi. The major commercial cultivars are complex hybrids. [2] About 70% of the sugar produced worldwide comes from S. officinarum and hybrids using this species. [3]
Muscovado [1] – a minimally processed sugar; Non-centrifugal cane sugar – made by the simple evaporation of sugar cane juice. Palm sugar [1] – made from sap tapped from the inflorescence of assorted varieties of palm; Panela; Penuche [1] Powdered sugar [1] Raw sugar [1] Refiner's sugar, refiner's syrup [1] Ribose [2] Rice syrup [1 ...
Specimens of this cane were sent to Calcutta, India in 1796 [3] from where specimens were sent to Durban, South Africa to help establish the sugar industry there. From Durban specimens were sent to Mauritius in the late 1800s where they adopted the name Uba due to arriving in a water soaked box that had washed off the boxes' original wording ...
Kans grass (Saccharum spontaneum)Saccharum spontaneum (wild sugarcane, [1] kans grass) is a grass native throughout much of tropical and subtropical Asia, northern Australia, and eastern and northern Africa. [2]
Saccharum is a genus of tall perennial plants of the broomsedge tribe within the grass family. [5]The genus is widespread across tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions in Africa, Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and assorted oceanic islands.
Saccharum edule is a species of sugarcane, that is a grass in the genus Saccharum with a fibrous stalk that is rich in sugar. It is cultivated in tropical climates in southeastern Asia. It has many common names which include duruka, tebu telor, PNG/Fiji asparagus, dule (Fiji), pitpit (Melanesia/New Guinea) and naviso.
The modern parishes of Jamaica Cane Cutters in Jamaica in the 1890s. Anonymous. [1]This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones.