Sugarcane
செங்கரும்புచెరకు
Saccharum officinarum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 1.5 m
Poaceae
Also called Sugar Cane
Formerly Saccharum atrorubens, Saccharum bataviense, Saccharum fragile, Saccharum glabrum, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New GuineaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 6.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 2–7 m; Plants for a Future 6–6 m
- Spread
- 1.5 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- caen, cha'ncat, coba-gui-naxi
- Spanish
- Caña de azúcar
- Indonesian
- Tebu
- Portuguese
- Cana-de-açúcar
- Chinese
- 甘蔗, 斑茅花, 秀貴甘蔗
- Hawaiian
- Kō
- French
- Canne à sucre
- Finnish
- jalosokeriruoko
- Czech
- třtinovník cukrový
- Japanese
- サトウキビ
- German
- Zuckerrohr
- Chinese (China)
- 甘蔗
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Saccharum officinarum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.