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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Cynodon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cynodon (Greek kuon, a dog, and odons, a tooth). Gramineae. Low creeping perennials, used for lawns and pasture. Flowers in slender digitate spikes; spikelets 1-fld., compressed, awnless, sessile in 2 rows along one side of a slender rachis.— -Species 4, in warm regions. C. incompletus, Nees. Blue Couch-grass. Occurs in E. and S. Air. and also New S. Wales, where it is used as a pasture grass. It is reported as poisoning stock, at certain stages of its growth producing hydrocyanic (prussic) acid. A. S. Hitchcock. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 Flowers in slender digitate spikes; spikelets 1-fld., compressed, awnless, sessile in 2 rows along one side of a slender rachis.— -Species 4, in warm regions.
+C. incompletus, Nees. Blue Couch-grass. Occurs in E. and S. Air. and also New S. Wales, where it is used as a pasture grass. It is reported as poisoning stock, at certain stages of its growth producing hydrocyanic (prussic) acid.      A. S. Hitchcock.
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