SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Size:2 GALLON pot or even a sunny indoor

or even a sunny indoor spot

Dramatic foliage

and may produce even in its first year

and are sometimes pickled or made into preserves

and a glowing lime-green stripe down the center of each leaf

SUGAR CANE --Saccharum officinarum-- Size:2 GALLON pot or even a sunny indoorClassic 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