Broadleaf cattail is a plant worthy of patronage

Broadleaf Cattail at first glance it seems ignorant people uninteresting and useless plant. Someone in everyday life calls him a cane, someone – with reed. They're both wrong. Despite the fact that broadleaf cattail are adjacent, and so with the other plants in the swamp, but the relatives they are not. This family separate. It applies only to one genus, which developed only twenty species, and broadleaf cattail in it is the most common.

On any river Creek, on the banks of a lake or on a wet watery swamp it forms dense thickets with a strong elastic sheets are very pliable for bending, extending up to three metres in length. Neither rain nor storm will never bend and will not put it on the water. Only old and dried up parts of itself falls into the water with a cattail. The photo attached to this article reflects his views. Remember it, not to be confused with other very similar plants.

Cattail Rhizome is a powerful, but gentle at the edges, covered with scales. Their thickness – in the human hand. It tightly clings to land in the water, so to pull out the plant very difficult. Fundamentally there is the same amount of starch as potatoes. These are animals and many people. For example, perfectly baked his people living in the Caucasus, receiving the dish, taste like beans. About its nutritional properties in ancient times wrote Fairest. Only inexperienced modern city dwellers we should not be complacent about this. On the water grow like cattail wide-leaved plants, roots of which can be poisonous. Only if you are sure that you are addressing this plant, use it in food. Everyone likes his buds. This cylinder dark brown under thirty centimeters in length.

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Cattail – the plant is ancient and valuable for household needs. So far in the Ukrainian villages there are houses covered in it. The roof under him, warm, waterproof, stand for fifty years. And his footprints paleontologists find in the deepest geological strata, belonging to a very ancient Historical epochs. Many generations were woven leaf mats and utensils, receiving fibers, which produced coarse cloth, a second-rate paper. In the early days of shepherds and strangers wore waterproof coats of cattail. The peasants were stuffed with down, derived from the buds, pillows. And fashionable felt hats are obtained only due to the fact that wool mix this wonderful vegetable fluff.

Marine life jackets are made on the same basis. He has such a wonderful buoyancy, in order to keep the human body afloat, just 1 kg 220 g of fluff from the cattail inflorescence. With regard to the production of cotton, the early era was not the best material. Physical properties it is a soft, absorbing ability with sterile material, which has long been used by military doctors.

Very valuable cattail winemakers. Sheet they caulk tubs and barrels. Rope from it, tied up the vines, so call it barrel grass. What are the ropes in the old days of it Willie!