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Finger Millet
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Finger Millet

Eleusine coracana

Eleusine coracana, or finger millet, is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is a tetraploid and self-pollinating species probably evolved from its wild relative Eleusine africana.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Finger Millet in Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle

Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle

李時珍 · 1596 · p.45

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76789.