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Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa, Spain and Portugal. It is used for crafts, such as cords , basketry , and espadrilles .
The term espadrille is French and derives from the word in the Occitan language, which comes from espardenya in Catalan or alpargata and esparteña in Spanish. Both espardenya and esparteña refer to a type of shoes made with esparto, a tough, wiry Mediterranean grass used in making rope. [7] Its name in the Basque region is espartina. [8]
The species is most commonly known in English as "cogongrass" (also "cogon grass"), [3] from Spanish cogón, from the Tagalog and Visayan kugon. [5] Other common names in English include kunai grass, blady grass, satintail, spear grass, sword grass, thatch grass, alang-alang, lalang grass, cotton wool grass, kura-kura, [3] and keri, [6] among ...
Topographic map of Spain. The wildlife of Spain includes the diverse flora and fauna of Spain.The country located at the south of France has two long coastlines, one on the north on the Cantabrian Sea, another on the East and South East on the Mediterranean Sea, and a smaller one on the west and south west on the Atlantic Ocean, its territory includes a big part of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...
It has several common names including giant cane, elephant grass, carrizo, arundo, Spanish cane, Colorado river reed, wild cane, and giant reed. Arundo and donax are respectively the old Latin and Greek names for reed. [3] Arundo donax grows in damp soils, either fresh or moderately saline, and is native to the Greater Middle East.
Bothriochloa pertusa is a species of grass.It is widely used as a fodder and a graze for livestock.. Common names for the plant include hurricane grass, Indian couch grass, Indian-bluegrass, pitted bluestem, [1] Seymour grass, Barbados sourgrass, [2] Antigua hay, pitted beardgrass, [3] sweet pitted grass, silver grass (), [4] comagueyana, [1] yerba huracán (), [4] suket putihan, salay ...
Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr., commonly known as Manila grass, is a species of mat-forming, perennial grass native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia and northern Australasia, from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan, and southern China (Guangdong, Hainan) south through Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Australia (northeast Queensland), and west to the Cocos ...
Cortaderia is a genus of plants in the Poaceae or grass family of plants. [4] [5]All current species included in the Cortaderia genus are native to South and Central America, ranging from the Patagonia region of southern Chile and Argentina, to Costa Rica.