Accession Data
Saccharum officinarum
Common Name: Sugar Cane
Family: Poaceae
Country of Origin: New Guinea
Description: Very tall, stout perennial grass up to 15 feet high, with solid yellowish-green canes 3/4 to 2 inches thick, rich green leaves, arching.
Uses: Cane sugar, cane syrup, molasses, wax, and rum are products of sugarcane. Molasses is used as a sweetener, in industrial alcohol, for explosives, synthetic rubber, and in combustion engines. Fresh cane stems are often chewed, especially by poorer people. Sugar is used as a preservative for fruits and meats; cane is also made into a liqueur. The young unexpanded inflorescence of 'tebu telur' is eaten raw, steamed or toasted, and prepared in various ways. Refuse cane (bagasse) is used in the manufacture of paper, cardboard, and fuel. The reeds are made into pens, mats, screens, and thatch. Sugar is a common adjunct to unpleasant medicines. Some races are considered magical and are used ceremoniously.
Reported to be antidote, antiseptic, antivinous, bactericide, cardiotonic, demulcent, diuretic, intoxicant, laxative, pectoral, piscicide, refrigerant, and stomachic. It is a folk remedy for arthritis, bedsores, boils, cancer, colds, cough, diarrhea, dysentery, eyes, fever, hiccups, inflammation, laryngitis, opacity, penis, skin, sores, sore throat, spleen, tumors, and wounds
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 8a-10b
Accession #: 199900588
Accession Date: 1999-10-20
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1216
Quantity: 2
Source: Joan Leonard - Ohio State
Culture: Propagated by stem cuttings, but seed produced in the tropics assist in the production of cvs through hybridization. Lime in the soil is considered beneficial for the proper development of the sugar content of the canes. Manuring is indispensible as the crop is an exhausting one. It is generally grown for many years in the same ground, without rotation or rest.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
SubFamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Sacchareae
SubTribe: Saccharinae
Flowering Data:
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References
- James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished {from New Crops Website at Purdue}
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 17 February 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 17 February 2015
- Saccharum officinarum at Wikispecies. Accessed 29 July 2015.
- at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, July 06, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by Mette Nielsen. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported from Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, July 06, 2017.
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