Great Millet - Sorghum bicolor
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Great Millet - Sorghum bicolor | dylan | Bristol | 25 Oct 2022, 6:22 p.m. | 25 Oct 2022, 12:33 p.m. | |
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Great Millet - Sorghum bicolor | dylan | Bristol | 25 Oct 2022, 6:22 p.m. | 25 Oct 2022, 12:33 p.m. | |
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Great Millet - Sorghum bicolor | dylan | Bristol | 23 Sep 2023, 8:39 p.m. | 23 Sep 2023, 10:31 a.m. |
Species Description
Scattered throughout the Southern half of the UK. Habitat includes: docks, cultivated ground, rubbish tips, wasteland. Growing habit: Annual. Height: Up to 2m. Flowers: . Arises from bird-seed and wool shoddy. Cultivated in Britain by 1596. It was recorded from the wild in 1890 (Berkshire). Wild relatives occur in Africa south of the Sahara and were probably domesticated in this area. It is widely grown as a crop in Africa, S.W. Asia and India.
Stace 4:
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (S. vulgare Pers.) - Great Millet.
Annual to 2m; leaves usually >2cm wide; panicle compact at anthesis; bisexual spikelets broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, subacute, usually awnless, persistent at maturity; (2n=20). Neophyte-casual; alien from birdseed and other grain, sometimes other sources, also grown as game-cover; scattered in Britain North to Central Scotland, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, County Kildare, County Dublin; Africa. Pre-flowering plants resemble those of Zea mays, but leaves and sheaths are completely glabrous and base of the leaf scarcely clasps the stem.