Panicum maximum
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Panicum maximum, Jacq. Guinea-Grass. Four to 8 ft.,or sometimes taller, forming dense tufts: culms robust: nodes hairy: sheaths more or less hirsute; blades 20-30 in. long: panicle 1-2 ft. long, the long stiff branches arranged in whorls; spikelets short-pedicelled, smooth, rather glossy, the seed minutely cross-wrinkled. Native of Afr., early intro. into the VV. Indies and Trop. Amer.—Cult, for forage in the Gulf States. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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