The crop is spinifex, a hardy perennial tussock grass found across more than two-thirds of Australia’s vast inland desert, which could potentially transform the production of materials such as ...

Monochrome painting of ciliate desert-grass (wugong cao, lit. centipede grass; Eremochloa ciliaris/Pteris vittata?) from Diannan bencao tushuo (The Illustrated Yunnan Pharmacopoeia). Diannan bencao ...

Bermuda turns dormant and brown in the winter temperatures in the desert, but the triple-digit heat of the summer kills the cool-weather grasses. To keep courses green, they must overseed in the fall.