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Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass, also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe , Africa , Australia and much of Asia .
Oxalis pes-caprae, commonly known as African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة), [2] is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
The genus as a whole as well as its species are commonly known as Bermuda grass or dog's tooth grass. [citation needed] Species [1] [3] Cynodon ambiguus (Ohwi) P.M.Peterson; Cynodon barberi Rang. & Tadul. – India, Sri Lanka; Cynodon convergens F.Muell. Cynodon coursii A.Camus – Madagascar
Tifton 85 is a hybrid strain of Bermudagrass Cynodon dactylon, a forage perennial grass that originated in Africa and was brought to the United States as a pasture and hay crop for the humid Southern states.
[1] [2] Stolons are often called runners. Rhizomes , in contrast, are root-like stems that may either grow horizontally at the soil surface or in other orientations underground. [ 1 ] Thus, not all horizontal stems are called stolons.
Plants with underground rhizomes include gingers, bamboo, snake plant, the Venus flytrap, Chinese lantern, western poison-oak, [13] hops, and Alstroemeria, and some grasses, such as Johnson grass, Bermuda grass, and purple nut sedge. Rhizomes generally form a single layer, but in giant horsetails, can be multi-tiered. [14]
Cynodon nlemfuensis, the African Bermuda-grass, is a species of grass, genus Cynodon, family Poaceae. [2] [3] It is native to Tropical Africa except West Africa, and widely introduced as a forage elsewhere; Hawaii, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, South America, western and southern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. [1]
[5] [6] Duffy's medal also made Bermuda the smallest country in the world to have won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics. [7] [8] In April 2018, Duffy won the first gold medal of the XXI Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. [9] Duffy won the women's sprint triathlon by a 43-second lead, becoming Bermuda's first female Commonwealth gold ...