napier grass

Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) can grow abundantly in areas where the vegetation has been disturbed, providing good fodder for grazing animals when young but quickly becoming rank, coarse, and a refuge for insects. Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica) is a troublesome grass on depleted and fire-seared…

…Africa that are dominated by elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) or in New Guinea by pit-pit grass (Miscanthus floridulus), both of which grow 3 metres (9.8 feet) tall.

…understory of elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum). The most-common West African savanna trees are in the genera Anogeissus, Combretum, and Strychnos.