Originally Posted by aruzinsky

I first saw it growing at a house two blocks away and mistook it as a variety of bamboo:


I later discovered that it was a grass and bought rhizomes from Maple River Farms - Your Source For Miscanthus X Giganteus Rhizomes

Here are my plants after 2 years:


I will post more pictures after it goes to tassel.

The most remarkable characteristic of this plant is that it is insensitive to fertigation under normal soil conditions. Another unusual characteristic is that it is relatively efficient at doing photosynthesis. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscanthus_giganteus. On a dry weight, albeit not a wet weight bases, it grows faster than any musa.