Typha latifolia only at first glance it seems uninteresting people ignorant and useless plant.Someone calls it in everyday reeds, someone - a cane.Both are wrong.Despite the fact that Typha latifolia adjacent and so with another plant of the swamp, but they are not relatives.This family separate.It applies only to the same genus, which has developed only twenty species, and broadleaf cattail in it - the most common.
on any river backwaters on the shores of a lake or on a wet watery swamp it forms dense thickets with strong elastic leaves very pliable in bending, pull up to three meters in length.Neither rain nor storm never sognёt and do not put it in the water.Only the aged and dried himself often falls on the water cattail.Photo applied to this article perfectly shows its appearance.Remember it, not to be confused with the other, very similar plants.
cattail rhizome - a powerful but gentle at the edges covered with scales.Their thickness - in a human hand.It firmly clings to the ground in the water, so it is very difficult to pull out the plant.At the root there as much starch as potatoes and.These are the animals, and many people.For example, well-baked its people living in the Caucasus, receiving dish tastes like beans.On its nutritional properties in ancient times wrote Theophrastus.Only the inexperienced modern urban residents should not deceive ourselves about this.On the water grows like broadleaf cattail plants, roots of which can be toxic.Only if you are sure that before you plant it is, use it for food.Everyone likes his buds.This cylinders dark brown under thirty centimeters in length.
Rogoza - ancient and valuable plant for household needs.Until now, the Ukrainian selenium have a home covered with them.Roof underneath warm, waterproof, are already fifty years.And his footprints paleontologists found in the deepest geological strata belonging to a very ancient historical epochs.Many generations of people from its leaves woven mats and household utensils, receiving fibers from which the coarse cloth, second-rate paper.In the early days of the shepherds and pilgrims wore raincoats of cattail.Farmers stuffed fluff derived from the inflorescence, pillows.A fashionable felt hats are obtained only because the wool is mixed to this wonderful vegetable fluff.
Marine life jackets are sewn on his own basis.It has such a great buoyancy that in order to keep afloat on the human body, it is sufficient only 1 kg 220 g of fluff inflorescences cattail.With regard to the production of wool, the earliest age had a better material.By physical properties is soft, having an absorbent capacity of sterile material, which has long enjoyed military doctors.
very valuable cattail winemakers.Liszt they caulk tubs and barrels.Ropes of a tie the vines, so call it cooperage grass.And what in the old rope from a Willy!
