Proso Millet🌾

An annual in the grass family, native to Central Asia; one of the world's oldest cultivated cereals since the Neolithic. One of Japan's three main traditional millets with awa and hie, cultivated as a staple across East Asia before rice. Long familiar in kibi-dango and kibi-mochi — famously the 'kibi-dango' given in the Momotarō folktale. Now revalued as a health food and allergy-friendly grain. Okayama is the main producing area in Japan.

Identification Points

• ✓0.5–1.5 m tall
• ✓Drooping panicle inflorescence
• ✓Rounded yellow-orange seeds 1–2 mm

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Phylogenetic Positionイネ科 →