Vetiver

Chrysopogon zizanioides
Poaceae

Growth Habit

Grass/Sedge

Description

To 180cm or over. Stems robust, upright, simple, densly clumped. Leaves linear, to 90 x 1cm, rigid, margins scabrid; sheaths glabrous. Inflorescence lanceolate-oblong, to 45cm, condensed; racemes to 8cm, slender; spikelets to 0.5cm, awnless; lower glume tough, minutely spiny beneath.

Source of plant

WW Granger

USDA Hardiness Zone

10

Special characteristics

other ethnobotanical uses, tender perennial