Recursos Tagged: Pennisetum Purpureum

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  1. Pennisetum purpureum - Elephant Grass, Napier Grass

    Edible Portion: Flowers, Shoots, Vegetable A grass which keeps growing from year to year. It forms large clumps. It can grow 2-4 m tall. The leaf blades are 4 cm wide.The edges become very sharp. The flowers are dense and spike like. They are yellow, brown and purple.
    Pennisetum purpureum Elephant Grass Napier FPI Plant Information Edible Flowers

  2. Napier Grass - PlantVillage

    Mainly used as fodder crop. Generally it is fed directly to cattle or made into silage or hay. It produces huge biomass and can be harvested multiple times in a year which making it a good raw materials for biofuel production. Napier grass is planted in marginal lands and slopes to increase soil...
    Pennisetum purpureum

  3. Napier Grass

    Mainly used as fodder crop. Generally it is fed directly to cattle or made into silage or hay. It produces huge biomass and can be harvested multiple times in a year which making it a good raw materials for biofuel production. Napier grass is planted in marginal lands and slopes to increase soil...
    Pennisetum purpureum King Grass Elephant Grass

  4. Napier Grass - IFAS

    Napier grass is not native to Florida. It is also known as elephant grass. There are more than 100 species ofPennisetum, some of which are cultivated for grain. Napier grass was introduced to Florida as a forage crop. It is found in swamps and bottomlands and often infests canals, ditches, and...
    Pennisetum purpureum