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Panicum decompositum, known by the common names native millet, native panic, Australian millet, papa grass, and umbrella grass, is a species of perennial grass native to the inland of Australia. It occurs in every mainland state. [1] The seeds can be cultivated to produce flour typically used in Aboriginal bushfood. [2]
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum [2] (/ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ ə m /) and also known as great millet, [3] broomcorn, [4] guinea corn, [5] durra, [6] imphee, [7] jowar, [8] or milo, [9] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, while the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...
In Central Australia, native millet (Panicum decompositum; Panicum australianse) and spinifex were commonly used. Wattleseed could also be used in the flour mix. Women harvested the fully ripe, dry seeds of the plant by beating the grass (or pod-laden trees in the case of wattleseed) with sticks to dislodge the seeds.
Millet porridge made with pumpkin is particularly common. In the Lipetsk Oblast ritual and daily meals from millet include chichi (Russian: чичи). These are millet fritters. [56] Millet is the main ingredient in bánh đa kê, a Vietnamese sweet snack.
Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or fungi used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.
Despite the efforts, the control is not keeping up with their invasiveness, and the NSW Government has granted that it is unlikely to surpass its 2015 goal of ‘a reduction in the impact of invasive species’. [2] Weeds are threat to the state's natural environment and would jeopardise many native plants and animals in NSW.
Echinochloa frumentacea (Indian barnyard millet, sawa millet, or billion dollar grass) [2] is a species of Echinochloa. Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet . This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India , Pakistan , and Nepal .
Browntop millet can represent up to 10–25% of the diet of terrestrial and water birds. [15] Also 50% of ingested seed found in mourning dove's crops was browntop millet. [16] Urochloa ramosa is also used to suppress root-knot nematode populations in tomato and pepper crops in south-eastern states of America. [17]