Sugar Cane

Sugar cane is a large, strong-growing grass whose stout stalks are rich in sucrose. Wikipedia says it was first domesticated in New Guinea, where it was bred from the native Saccharum robustum, and that it is now grown across the tropics and subtropics for sugar and ethanol. Cunningham gives it a feminine, Venus, water character and the folk name Ko, a Hawaiian name. He lists love and lust as its powers: a piece of the cane is chewed while thinking of a loved one, it is used in love and lust potions, and sugar is scattered to dispel evil and to cleanse and purify areas before rituals. Only love and lust are taken as categories here, because those are the words he uses for its powers.