Cultivated, for example, in Angola, Argentina, Arizona, Brazil, California, Cameroon, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Florida, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Malaysia, Mauritus, New Hebrides, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Where native, this species is found mainly in swamps and at the edge of brackish estuaries. Cultivation Out of a gram of seed, about 100 germinate. Seed is usually sown, immediately after collecting and sundrying. In Malaysia, it starts fruiting as early as year 4.
Fruits take two years to ripen in China.
Fruits are collected when the capsules start to turn black. Webb et al. The data from Puerto Rico were provided by a team promoting energy grasses as energy sources. Perhaps the data of Smith and Dowd, in Florida, are equally reliable. Both the Puerto Rican and Florida tabulations suggest that the energy grasses may be 10 times as productive of DM as Eucalyptus.