Broadleaf thistle - a plant worthy of patronage

Рогоз широколистный только на первый взгляд It seems to ignorant people uninteresting and useless plant. Someone in everyday life calls him reeds, someone - reeds. Both are wrong. Despite the fact that the cattail broadleaf is adjacent to both plants in the swamp, but they are not relatives. This family is separate. It refers to only one genus, in which only twenty species have developed, and broad-leaved cattail in it is the most common.

На любой речной заводи, по берегам озера или на wet watery swamp it forms dense thickets with strong elastic leaves very flexible when bent, stretching up to three meters in length. Neither a rainstorm nor a storm will ever bend or place it in water. Only the aged and dried-up parts lie on the water of the cattail. The photo attached to this article perfectly demonstrates its appearance. Remember it, so as not to be confused with other, very similar plants.

The rhizo rhizome is powerful, but tender at the edges,covered with scales. Their thickness is in the human hand. It clings tightly to the ground in water, so pulling out a plant is very difficult. There is as much starch in the root as in the potato. This is used by animals and many nations. For example, people who live in the Caucasus bake it perfectly, getting a dish that resembles the taste of beans. Theophofrast wrote about its nutritional properties in ancient times. Only inexperienced modern city dwellers should not be deceived about this. On the water grow similar to cattail broadleaf plants, the rhizomes of which may be poisonous. Only if you are sure that this is a plant in front of you, use it for food. Everyone likes his inflorescences. These are cylinders of dark brown color under thirty in length.

Рогоза – растение древнее и ценное для household needs. Until now, in Ukrainian villages there are houses covered with them. The roofs under it are warm, waterproof, they stand already for a hundred and a half years. Paleontologists find its traces in the deepest geological formations belonging to very ancient

historical eras.Many generations of people wove mats and household utensils out of its leaves, produced fibers, from which they made coarse cloth, second-grade paper. In early times, shepherds and wanderers walked in raincoats made of cattail. The peasants were stuffed with pillows from down, obtained from inflorescences. And the most fashionable felt hats are obtained only due to the fact that this wonderful plant fluff is added to the wool.

Marine life jackets are sewn on his ownbasis. It possesses such remarkable buoyancy that in order to keep the human body afloat, only 1 kg of 220 g of fluff from rogoza inflorescences is sufficient. As for the production of wool, in early times there was no better material. In terms of physical properties, it is a soft, sterile material that has absorbing abilities, which military physicians have long used.

Very valuable rogoz from winemakers. Leaf they caulk tubs and barrels. Vines are tied up with ropes from it, that's why they call it boar grass. And what ropes in the olden time from him twisted!