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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 in threshing.
Setaria pycnocoma (Steud.) Henrard ex Nakai. Setaria viridis is a species of grass known by many common names, including green foxtail, [1] green bristlegrass, [1] and wild foxtail millet. [1] It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Setaria italica. [1] It is native to Eurasia, but it is known on most continents as an introduced species and ...
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]
The Classic of Rites lists soybeans (菽), wheat (麥), proso millet (黍), foxtail millet (稷) and hemp (麻). Zheng Xuan in his commentary onThe Rites of Zhou has rice (稻) instead of hemp. [2] Millet, beans, and wheat were widely recognized as part of the five grains and the debate was mainly debate about the inclusion of hemp or rice.
Paspalum scrobiculatum, commonly called kodo millet or koda millet, [1][2][3] is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to be confused with ragi (finger millet, Eleusine coracana)) [4][5] and also in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and in West Africa from where it originated. It is grown as a minor crop in most ...
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 ...
English Botanical name Assamese Bengali Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telugu Tulu Urdu Konkani Meitei Nepali Maithili; दाल (Dāl) Pulses/ Split beans / bean: দাইল (Dāil) ডাল (Ḍāl) દાળ (Dāḷ) ಬೇಳೆ (Bēḷe) പരിപ്പ് (Parippu) डाळ Ḍāḷ: ଡାଲି ...
Mampava bipunctella, the foxtail millet webworm, is a species of snout moth, and the type species in the genus Mampava. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1888, and is known from India, [2] Papua New Guinea, [3] Malaysia ( Sarawak ), Taiwan, China, the Moluccas, Indonesia ( Java, Borneo) and Japan . The larvae feed on sorghum and corn.