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purpureum
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Napier grass
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Poaceae
Native to GB/Ireland
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Genus
Pennisetum can be annual or perennial, evergreen or deciduous grasses, clump-forming or spreading in habit, with linear leaves and narrow flowering panicles with conspicuous bristles
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