Chusquea quila is a bamboo that grows in humid areas below 500 m, where Chusquea coleou becomes more dominant above.

Chusquea is a genus of evergreen bamboos with about 150 species.

The genus Neurolepis is now included in a subtribe of bamboos, Chusqueinae, along with Chusquea.

It is one of two genera in the subtribe Chusqueinae, the other being Chusquea ; unlike that genus the stems of Neurolepis are hollow, like other bamboos.

* Highland Tropics-high-altitude orchids ( pleurothallids ) native to mid-elevations in Central and South America, as well as bromeliads, Chusquea circinata, Dracula spp., Trichoceros parviflorus.

* Chusquea elegans, a bamboo species found in Paraná, Brazil

Chusquea quila ( in Spanish Quila ), in contrast to Colihue, has a spreading or vining growth.

Some animals are, to various extents, associated with stands of Chusquea, for example the Inca Wren and the Plushcap.

Chusquea quila can form pure stands called quilantales.

Chusquea quila can form pure stands called Quilantales.

The genus Chusquea now includes species formerly classified in Dendragrostis, Rettbergia and Swallenochloa.

***: Comprises 2 genera: Chusquea, Neurolepis.

The colihue cane was used by the Mapuches Indians to make instruments and as lances during the War of Arauco.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

Other widely consumed spirits are aguardiente ( firewater ) made from sugar cane, known as caña quemada (" burnt cane ") or, simply, ' caña ' (" cane ").

The British introduced sugar cane which was to become the main crop and source of foreign trade, and slaves were brought from Africa to work on the sugar cane plantations.

The most well-known disaccharide is sucrose, ordinary sugar ( in scientific contexts, called table sugar or cane sugar to differentiate it from other sugars ).

Acadian refugees, who largely came from what is now modern-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia adapted their French rustic cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish, sugar cane, and sassafras.

A fossil toad ( specimen UCMP 41159 ) from the La Venta fauna of the late Miocene of Colombia is indistinguishable from modern cane toads from northern South America.

The species derives its common name from its use against the cane beetle ( Dermolepida albohirtum ).

Originally, cane toads were used to eradicate pests from sugar cane, giving rise to their common name.

These species can be distinguished from the cane toad by the absence of large parotoid glands behind their eyes and the lack of a ridge between the nostril and the eye.

Poisonous sausages containing toad meat are being trialled in the Kimberley ( Western Australia ) to try to protect native animals from cane toads ' deadly impact.

The cane toad is native to the Americas, and its range stretches from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas to the central Amazon and southeastern Peru.

Before the early 1840s, the cane toad had been introduced into Martinique and Barbados, from French Guiana and Guyana.

alt = A map of Australia with the cane toad's distribution highlighted: The area follows the northeastern coast of Australia, ranging from the Northern Territory through to the north end of New South Wales.

Today, the cane toad is well established in the state, from the Keys to north of Tampa, and they are gradually extending further northward.

alt = A selection of cane toad merchandise, including key rings made from their legs, a coin purse made from the head, front limbs and body of a toad, and a stuffed cane toad

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

In the subtropical region of southern China, cassava is the fifth-largest crop in term of production, after rice, sweet potato, sugar cane and maize.

In 1841, Beauregard married Marie Antoinette Laure Villeré ( March 22, 1823 – March 21, 1850 ), the daughter of Jules Villeré, a sugar cane planter in Plaquemines Parish and a member of one of the most prominent French Creole families in southern Louisiana.

Court records show that Queen Bona imported large volumes of eastern and southern fruit such as oranges, lemons, pomegranates, olives, figs, chestnuts, raisins and almonds ( including marzipan ), along with grain ( such as rice ), cane sugar and Italian olive oil.

The Spaniards introduced cows, poultry, rice, citrus fruits ( oranges, tangerines and lemons ), from southern Asia they brought sugar cane and from Africa plantains, bananas and coffee ( which is cultivated in the yungas near Buena Vista.

The image of cane pole fishing for catfish at a proverbial lazy stream has become a stand-by of southern Americana.

Its southern boundary consists of natural, sub-tropical bush and sugar cane fields.

So concerned was this endeavor of Abner, that the family used homemade maple sugar instead of cane sugar and linen woven from flax they grew on their farm instead of southern cotton.

The Quartermaster Corps was assigned the job of constructing a modern airdrome from tangled brush and sugar cane fields adjacent to Pearl Harbor.

It is believed that the western quoll once occupied 70 percent of Australia, but because of cane toads, predators, habitat destruction and poison baiting, it is now less abundant.

In the mistaken belief that emancipation had already been granted by the British Parliament, Sharpe organised a peaceful general strike across many estates in western Jamaica at a critical time for the plantation owners: harvest of the sugar cane.

In 1974, they won first place in the Festival of Orchestras for the composition " La Zafra ", whose lyrics describe the struggles of sugar cane workers in western Puerto Rico and elsewhere.

Arbutus unedo ( strawberry tree, occasionally cane apple ) is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland.

The short-tailed cane mouse, the main host of GTOV, is native to western Venezuela and resides in large numbers in tall grass, cultivated agricultural fields, human homes, and outbuildings.

The cane cholla's range is dry areas from Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and west Texas ( rarely northeast to western Kansas ) south to Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí — one of the most northern and eastern ranges of all chollas.