Echinochloa esculenta

Echinochloa esculenta

  • Echinochloa esculenta
  • Echinochloa esculenta
  • Flower name
    Echinochloa esculenta
  • Scientific name
    Echinochloa esculenta
  • AliasJapanese barnyard millet
  • Place of originChina and Japan
  • Place of floweringField
  • Flowering seasonJuly, August, September

What is Echinochloa esculenta

Echinochloa esculenta or Japanese millet (scientific name: Echinochloa esculenta) is an annual herbaceous plant of the genus Echinochloa cultivated in China and Japan. It is cultivated for its seeds for food and its stems and leaves for animal feed, but is disliked by rice farmers as a weed in the rice paddies that negatively affects the rice plants.

Common name: Echinochloa esculenta or Japanese millet, scientific name: Echinochloa esculenta, origin: China, Japan, environment: field, grass: 100 to 200 Leaf length: 50-70 cm, leaf width: 3 cm, inflorescence: alternate, flowering: July-September, inflorescence length: 10-30 cm, inflorescence shape: cylindrical, ear color: green to yellow, sowing: May-June, harvest time: late September-October, emergence time: May-September, fruit type: tuber, fruit color: yellowish brown, use: cereal grain Use: Miscellaneous grains, Use site: Fruit.


  • Order
    Poales
  • Family
    Poaceae
  • Genus
    Echinochloa
  • Species
    E. esculenta
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Spikelet inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Small ears
  • Leaf type
    lanceolate
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typePerennial grasses
  • Flower colorsYellow
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorBrown Orange
  • Height100.0 ~ 200.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower ~ cm

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