Citral rich high yielding lemongrass plant ‘Nima’ of Cymbopogon flexuosus

A plant as described and illustrated herein, said plant being a lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) having the following characteristics:

• a) greenish upper surface (137B), greenish lower surface (137A) purple violet (80C) florets, and rudimentary culms supporting the leaves in whorls,
• b) yield of biomass of 250 to 300 q/ha/year and yield of oil of 220 to 260 kg/ha/year,
• c) citral content of the oil of 85 to 90%,
• d) produces an essential oil having a monoterpene content of:
• 85.0 to 90.0% citral, 0.1 to 0.5% limonene, 0.1 to 0.5% linalool, 1.0 to 2.0% geraniol, 0.5 to 1.5% geranyl acetate in addition to other unidentified monoterpene fractions totaling to 100%.