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Sugarcane
Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Grasses & bamboos

Sugarcane

Saccharum officinarum L.

Names

EnglishSugarcane
Dutch—
SpanishCaña de azúcar
Chinese甘蔗
Sranan Tongoken
Scientific nameSaccharum officinarum L.

About this species

Saccharum officinarum is a large, strong-growing species of grass in the sugarcane genus. Its stout stalks are rich in sucrose, a disaccharide sugar which accumulates in the stalk internodes. It originated in New Guinea, and is now cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries worldwide for the production of sugar, ethanol and other products. It is one of the most productive and most intensively cultivated kinds of sugarcane.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderPoales
FamilyPoaceae
GenusSaccharum

In Suriname

7Records in Suriname
1iNaturalist observations
2012First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo1
  • Sipaliwini1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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