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Description. Foxtail millet is an annual grass with slim, vertical, leafy stems which can reach a height of 120–200 cm (3 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in). The seedhead is a dense, hairy panicle 5–30 cm (2 in – 1 ft 0 in) long. The small seeds, around 2 millimetres (3⁄32 in) in diameter, are encased in a thin, papery hull which is easily removed ...
Evidence at Cishan for foxtail millet dates back to around 8,700 years ago. [14] Noodles made from these two varieties of millet were found under a 4,000-year-old earthenware bowl containing well-preserved noodles at the Lajia archaeological site in north China; this is the oldest evidence of millet noodles in China. [20] [21]
Wodyetia bifurcata, the foxtail palm, is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae, native to Queensland, Australia. [1] It is the sole species in the genus Wodyetia . The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this palm as follows:
Setaria faberi, the Japanese bristlegrass, [ 2 ]nodding bristle-grass, [ 3 ]Chinese foxtail, Chinese millet, giant bristlegrass, giant foxtail or nodding foxtail, is an Asian grass. It is a summer annual, with plants emerging from seeds in the spring, and setting seeds in the late summer or fall. Giant foxtails prefer compacted soils, high in ...
Finger millet is a short-day plant with a growing optimum 12 hours of daylight for most varieties. Its main growing area ranges from 20°N to 20°S, meaning mainly the semiarid to arid tropics. Nevertheless, finger millet is found to be grown at 30°N in the Himalaya region (India and Nepal). It is generally considered as a drought-tolerant ...
Pearl millet is a summer annual crop well-suited for double cropping and rotations. The grain and forage are valuable as food and feed resources in Africa, Russia, India and China. Today, pearl millet is grown on over 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) of land worldwide. It accounts for about 50% of the total world production of millets. [7]
A. atripalpis. Binomial name. Atherigona atripalpis. Malloch, 1925. Atherigona atripalpis, the foxtail millet shoot fly, is a species of fly in the family Muscidae. It is found in East Asia and South Asia. Its host range includes the Setaria species Setaria italica, Setaria glauca, and Setaria plicata. [1]
Spodiopogon formosanus or the Taiwan oil millet ( Chinese: 臺灣油芒; pinyin: táiwān yóumáng [1]) (syn.: Eccoilopus formosanus [2]) is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae. It is endemic to Taiwan. [3] It is traditionally grown as a cereal crop by the Taiwanese aborigines.