Alien: Extinct.

Meikle (1985): "Gaudry (1855) quoting L. de Mas Latrie (1852) records that vast plantations of sugar-cane existed in the Middle Ages around Episkopi, Kouklia and the Gulf of Pentagia (Morphou Bay) and provided the island with one of its principal revenues at that time. By the end of the 16th century the cultivation of sugar-cane had ceased, possibly because of the disordered state of the island, but more probably for economic reasons, and because cotton had become a more profitale crop. By the 18th century even the techniques of sugar manufacture had been forgotten. Kotschy (1865) notes that, in 1862, Saccharum officinarum still survived in gardens at Episkopi. It is not mentioned by subsequent writers on the flora of Cyprus"