“Let the ears of rice grow like sorghum, and the desert will smell like melons and fruits all year round.” This is the content of “If I Were a Cloning Expert”.
Sorghum is a plant of the genus Sorghum in the family Gramineae.
Sorghum is an annual herb. The stalk is relatively strong, upright, 3 to 5 meters high, 2 to 5 centimeters in transverse diameter, and has supporting roots on the base node. The leaf sheath is hairless or slightly white; the ligule is membranous, with a rounded apex and ciliated edges; the leaves are linear to linear-lanceolate, 40 to 70 cm long, 3 to 8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base round or slightly slightly It is ear-shaped, with a dark green surface and light green or white powder on the back. It is hairless on both sides, with cartilage edges and fine stinging hairs. The midrib is wide and white.
The panicle is loose, the main axis is exposed, 15 to 45 cm long, 4 to 10 cm wide, the main stem is upright or slightly curved; the main axis has longitudinal ribs, sparsely pubescent hair, and 3 to 7 branches. , whorled, rough or finely hairy, dense at the base; each raceme has 3 to 6 nodes, with rough or slightly flat internodes; sessile spikelets are obovate or obovate-elliptical, 4.5 to 6 mm long and wide. 3.5 to 4.5 mm, pure base, bearded; both glumes are leathery, the upper part and edges are usually hairy, yellow-green at first, and light red to dark brown when mature; the back of the first glume is round and convex, the upper 1/3 The texture is thin, the edge is folded inward and has narrow wings, it becomes hard and shiny downward, with 12 to 16 veins, reaching only the middle, with transverse veins, and the top is pointed or with 3 small teeth; the second glume has 7 to 9 veins, The back is round and convex, with an inconspicuous ridge near the top, slightly boat-shaped, with fine hairs on the edge; the lemma is transparent and membranous, the first lemma is lanceolate, and the edge has long cilia; the second lemma is lanceolate to oblong. , with 2 to 4 veins, slightly 2-cleft at the top, a knee-curved awn protruding from between the cleft teeth, the awn is about 14 mm long; 3 stamens, anthers about 3 mm long; ovary obovate; styles separate, stigmas broom-shaped .
The caryopses are flat and convex on both sides, 3.5 to 4 mm long, light red to reddish brown, 2.5 to 3 mm wide when ripe, and the top is slightly exposed. The stalk of the stalked spikelet is about 2.5 mm long. The spikelet is linear to lanceolate, 3 to 5 mm long, male or neuter, persistent, brown to dark reddish brown; the first glume has 9 to 12 veins, and the second glume has 9 to 12 veins. 7 to 10 pulses. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.
Sorghum grains become sorghum rice after processing. The main ways to eat it are to cook rice or grind it into powder and then make it into various other foods, such as noodles, fish noodles, rolls, pancakes, steamed cakes, sticky cakes, etc. In addition to being eaten, sorghum can be used to make starch, sugar, wine and alcohol.