Two-handed hammer with broad sheets
See also: Two-handed hammer (homonymy)
Typha latifolia (the two-handed hammer with broad sheets , also called Québécois French stopper rod) is a plant of the family of the Typhacées. It is most common of the kind Typha .
It is a perennial herbaceous plant which pushes in the moderate and tropical areas of the northern hemisphere. She is present only close to the fresh water extents or the rivers, because she cannot tolerate a concentration of 1% of Sodium chloride (NaCl, or salt). The plant can measure between 1,5 and 3 m in height, it have broad sheets from 2 to 4 cm.
Characteristics
- reproductive Bodies
- dominant Color of the flowers: chestnut
- Period of flowering: July-September
- Inflorescence: simple ear
- Sexuality: monoïque
- Pollination: anémogame
- Seed
- Fruit: akene
- Dissemination: anémochore
- Habitat and standard distribution
- Habitat: European roselières
- Surface of distribution: cosmopolitan
Use
The air parts are edible; pollen can be used to make a kind of bread and the starts-up can eat themselves with the manner of asparaguses. The underground parts can be adapted in cooking or ground to make flour. This flour would in addition have very good taste and of the properties completely similar to the cereal flours.Although the culture is about non-existent, one calculated that the production of flour to the hectare would be of 60 quintals and this, without preliminary genetic selection. Its culture in moist environment would have moreover the advantage of emphasizing grounds usually considered as lost.
By extension in weaving, one thus indicates a stick or a stem whose end comprises a textile element which must be slipped by.
External bond
Sources
Marie-Victorin brother, Flora laurentienne , Gaëtan morin editor, Boucherville, 2002, p. 855Category: flora (vernacular name)
Beats-smg: Plačialapis švendrs Nds-nl: Lampepoetser
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