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Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō, bullrush, [7 ...
Sipsi The duduk or mey mouthpiece is a flattened piece of giant reed Arundo donax, a relative of common reed, which itself is flattened to make the zurna reed. In Middle East countries Phragmites is used to create a small instrument similar to the clarinet called a sipsi, with either a single, as in the picture, or double pipes as in bagpipes. [9]
A man in Germany thatching a roof using reeds. Phragmites australis, the common reed, is used in many areas for thatching roofs. In the United Kingdom, common reed used for this purpose is known as "Norfolk reed" or "water reed". However, "wheat reed" and "Devon reed" are not reeds but long-stemmed wheat straw.
Recent studies have characterized morphological distinctions between the introduced and native stands of Phragmites australis in North America. The Eurasian phenotype can be distinguished from the North American phenotype by its shorter ligules of up to 0.9 millimetres (1 ⁄ 32 in) as opposed to over 1 mm, shorter glumes of under 3.2 mm (1 ⁄ 8 in) against over 3.2 mm (although there is some ...
It is known in English as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha), and in American as broadleaf cattail. [7] It is found as a native plant species throughout most of Eurasia and North America, and more locally in Africa and South America. The genome of T. latifolia was published in 2022. [8]
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It is known in English as lesser bulrush, [3] [4] [5] and in American as narrowleaf cattail. [6] Description. Typha angustifolia grows 1.5–2 metres ...
Typha minima is the smallest of the cattails. It reaches on average 30–80 centimetres (12–31 in) in height, [4] with a maximum of 140 centimetres (55 in). The stem is erect and simple. The leaves are blue-green, linear, very narrow and not shiny.