Poaceae FAMILY

Cymbopogon caesius

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cymbopogon caesius is a very aromatic, evergreen, clump-forming perennial grass growing to 2 metres tall, occasionally to 3 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The plant is gathered from the wild and used to obtain an essential oil[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ], and is also occasionally cultivated for this purpose[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSouthern and eastern Africa - S. Africa, north to Eritrea, Arabia to India and southern China.

HabitatGrowing in grassland, savannah, open forest, dambos, fallow fields, waste ground and old maize fields, and along roadsides at elevations of 50 - 1,550 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].