Wild Sorghum grass ( Sorghum vursicolor )

Wild Sorghum grass ( Sorghum vursicolor )

This is among the tallest grasses, reaching up to 2.5-3m high with typical Christmas tree flowers head.
Sorghum is a member of the grass family and originally a wild plant in Africa.
The evolution of sorghum under the pressures of drought and high temperatures imparted the ability to tolerate drought, soil toxicities, and extremes of temperature more effectively to cultivated sorghum plants than other cereals.

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Varieties of sorghums are classified into 4 groups:

1. grain sorghums
2. grass sorghums or forage Sorghum
3. Sweet sorghums
4. Broomcorns

That’s the sorghum varieties, now lets talk a bit about the Wild sorghum;

• Seeds are sorghum like; hence its name.
• The grass can be planted and hence very suitable for making hay.

Uses:

• This is some what interesting but it is true, the seeds’ ashes of this plant is used by local people as  cooking salt.
• Also birds feed on this plant’s seeds.
• And more other uses as shown in the image below.

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