capim-grass

Updated: April 30, 2025

There sits, on the branch of an imbauba, rolled-up in its peculiar attitude, a sloth, the very picture of indolence, with its head sunk between its arms. The banks, covered in many places with the beautiful capim-grass, afford excellent pasturage for cattle. Now we turn into an inner stream, or igarape, often having to make our way with difficulty amid islands of capim-grass.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America