Candy Grass

Eragrostis cilianensis

Eragrostis cilianensis is a species of grass known by several common names, including stinkgrass, candy grass, and gray lovegrass.

Candy

Candy, also known as sweets and lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate or chewing gum. Sugar-glazed vegetables, fruit, or nuts are considered candied.

Grass

Grass refers to various families of plants. The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae). Lawns and pasturelands are typically composed of true grasses, five of which cover 46% of the world's arable land: rice, wheat, maize, barley, and sugar cane.

candy

Noun

1. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
2. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

Verb

1. To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
2. To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.

grass

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.