A shoot sprouting from a plant base, as in the banana, pineapple, or sugar cane.
Though they look very different, sugar cane and corn are both grasses. So is wheat, which is corn’s counterpart as the starch source of choice in the EU.
The main sugar-containing feedstocks include sugar cane, sweet beet, sugar grass stalks and Jerusalem artichoke.
Here, several hundred villagers tend fields of towering green sugar cane and cassava plants, sinking wells for water and chopping wood for fuel.
Farmers could grow grain, sugar cane, coffee, tea and tropical fruits for canning.
We sped north up the coast of New South Wales and Queensland, past lush banana and sugar cane plantations, and brimming rivers as wide as the Mississippi, then turned west into the Outback.
Elegant and regal with a nimbus of white hair, the founder, Renée Héraux, 77, greeted the women with a home remedy for distress. One by one, she fed them spoonfuls of a sugar cane syrup concoction.
Rum is distilled from fresh sugar cane juice or sugar cane molasses.
Imperialists vied to plant their flag in the most lucrative spots, wherever the spices were rich or the sugar cane tall.
In recent years, tourism has grown very quickly, overtaking sugar cane and coffee as the country's top earner.
