Description:
It is a perennial grass, growing up to three meters in height, often with aggressive rhizomes. It grows in tropical and sub-tropical areas. The swamps, saline swamps, river banks, deserts, jungles, and the low slopes of the Himalayas are the best place for kans grass. It produces narrow, flat leaves and stems which are culm and erect. The flower occurs in the season of Autumn or mainly after rain. Kans flower disposes in large, silky-white, much and densely branched panicles, with spreading fragile branches and spikes. Its caryopses are dispersed by wind.
Use and Benefits:
1. It has been used in the breeding of sugarcane, as it provides vigour, hardiness and resistance to many major diseases.
2. Plants are used for hedging or screening, thus it contains ornamental values.
3. It is also used for decoration, thatching, making ropes and as fodder.
4. It controls and prevents soil erosion by its extensive rhizome roots which makes it a very efficient binder of soils.
5. In form it is highly variable.
6. It may helps in kidney's problem and blood impurity.
7. It may also be use for good fodder for goats and camels.
8. The white flower against the green, gives pleasant to our eyes and therefore it also a happy reminder of the festive season.
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