WEEKEND FUN: Name this plant

Razor grass - FruitsThey look like grapes, don’t they?

Can you name the plant which bears this grape-like fruit?

This is your DNO fun assignment for the weekend.

Have some fun doing it and enjoy the weekend!

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36 Comments

  1. student smss
    March 11, 2013

    gooseberries :-D

  2. me
    March 10, 2013

    Razor grass (zeb coupant)

  3. yes
    March 10, 2013

    zeb coutoe

  4. The Authorities
    March 10, 2013

    Scleria scindens

  5. joanie
    March 9, 2013

    Gooseberries

    • YAP
      March 11, 2013

      absolutely. Boiled down with sugar… tastee. No offense to the authorities above.

  6. question
    March 9, 2013

    A grape tree without vines

  7. Anonymous
    March 9, 2013

    Common Name: Razor grass
    Scientific name: Scleria latifolia Sw.
    Family: Cyperaceae

  8. clerk
    March 9, 2013

    Zeb couto i remember goin in the bush for fat pork and this grass cutting up my feet. :-P

  9. jade
    March 8, 2013

    Never saw that one before. That one is a toughy.

  10. DOMINICAN CANADIAN.
    March 8, 2013

    I dont think i have ever seen this plant. 8)

  11. Anonymous
    March 8, 2013

    corn

  12. MIA
    March 8, 2013

    Razor Grass. I know it as “Zeb Coopan”

  13. different
    March 8, 2013

    I guess what we called razor grass was different. I can’t remember razor grass making a fruit. We used that one as glue. Never knew its name.

  14. .
    March 8, 2013

    Is that a dasheen tree? I think so. I like dasheen when it dry.

    • just lookin
      March 8, 2013

      you must be an ALIEN cas on earth no dasheen tree looks like that

    • him
      March 8, 2013

      I am laughing so much, that my mouth is hurting me. Yes it’s a dasheen plant.

    • Reporter
      March 8, 2013

      A dasheen tree? I think you need glasses my friend

    • gharan burton
      March 9, 2013

      Razor grass……..not sure what the real name for it is.

    • question
      March 9, 2013

      Dasheen really?

    • BRAIN DAMAGE
      March 9, 2013

      . more looks like a tania tree?

  15. %
    March 8, 2013

    I don’t know the name, but those little seeds hard like rock man.

  16. ........
    March 8, 2013

    I too remember that grass from going to the garden as a child. I do not know its name but I know it cuts.

  17. Uneven
    March 8, 2013

    Nanny Glue.

  18. Anonymous
    March 8, 2013

    Razor grass. Better known in creole as ‘zeb coutoe’

    • Reporter
      March 8, 2013

      Razor don’t have seeds, so that’s not possible

  19. as for my house
    March 8, 2013

    looking at it now it look nice but for how i hated this bush always cutting me when i go to the garden(when its time to take a shower u dont know where to wash.every where on your skin burning)

  20. bougla
    March 8, 2013

    mon pas sav

  21. Zor
    March 8, 2013

    Sa sé on zèb. Ma konnèt ki zèb sa mè mwen konnèt sé on zèb kamèm.
    A-A I die nuh!

  22. bigmack
    March 8, 2013

    to easy, long i’ve not seen that tree. Its a grafted glue tree, remember as a little boy my friends and i would always have it betwen our fingers just to keep the fingers together.

  23. Papa Bois
    March 8, 2013

    Ha Ha this one is the big Zeb Coutuo ( Razor grass/Knife grass) also called zeb panash.

  24. my take
    March 8, 2013

    The pearl tree.. :-D

  25. Clever
    March 8, 2013

    Never seen this on the Island before – is it a new plant

  26. WHO VEX VEX
    March 8, 2013

    ZEB GROIS

  27. Me
    March 8, 2013

    Papamet ca ki ca la ner :lol:

  28. 2Cute
    March 8, 2013

    PRICKLE TREE :lol:

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