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Saccharum officinarum

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Saccharum officinarum is a tropical perennial grass of the GRAMINEAE family. It is 3–4 m tall, approx 5 cm in diameter, with unbranched stems, which have many nodes and short conspicuous internodes filled with solid, juicy pulp. Each stem produces its own root system. Two types of roots develop: the first type, from the primordia of the cutting after planting, are thin and branched, and the second type, from the primordia of the tillers, which are thick, fleshy, and less branched. With age, all roots become brown, shrivel, and die. Leaves are up to 1.5 m long, falling from the lower stems when they wither. Each leaf consists of linear-lanceolate blade, up to 10 cm wide in the base, narrowing into sheath clasping the stem, sharp serrate on the margin and siliceous. The midrib is prominent and broad, white and concave on the upper surface, and green below.

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