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elephant grass

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elephant grass
see pennisetumpurpureum.


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The lush rainforest on the Sierra Leonean side that so impressed Greene has largely been denuded -- by unrestrained logging activity, generally having no husbandry, etc--and one now sees the same humungous or elephant grass that Greene saw on the Guinean side harassing the tiny road leading to Yenga.
The park consists of a vast stretch of marshland and high elephant grass as well as dense and moist tropical broadleaf forests crisscrossed by 4 main rivers like the Brahmaputra River.
Kaziranga, with its tall thickets of elephant grass, is ideal habitat for the pachyderms and the famed one-horned rhino, tigers, wild buffaloes, sloth bears, tigers and deer.
 
 
 
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