There are many plants of value in the countryside, and the plants that can be used in medicine are money grass, plantain, half lotus, yellow cedar, yellow grass, plantain, anchovy fern, pearl grass, soyberry grass, horse chestnut, knotweed, pagoda vegetable and so on. Common wild vegetables are cabbage, bracken, purslane, etc., and some plants can be used to make valuable wood, such as cypress, pine, fir plants, they are more famous trees, there should be many flower friends to know. The two plants of prickly pear and sea buckthorn can also be extracted from the VC, and the value is relatively high.
But there is also a plant in the countryside, it has many uses, even more than the above-mentioned plants, it is cattail, most of the cattails like to grow in places with moisture, such as the rural riverside, the creek, the wet ravine grows, when I was a child I often saw the cattail, the appearance of the plant looks like a candle, at that time will also take this plant as a mosquito coil, there are other uses, let's take a look at the wild plant of the cattail grass.
There is a kind of "cattail grass" in the countryside, which looks like a candle, and when I was a child, I used it as a "mosquito coil", which is of many uses!
Cattails
Some flower lovers think that cattail has ornamental value, so they want to dig up a few cattails in the wild and plant it in their yard, and there is a pool in her yard, which I think is also possible, and it can grow well directly around the pool. Cattail is a perennial aquatic plant, but also a swamp herb, the rhizome of the plant is milky white, more special, there are extremely thick aboveground stems, mature cattail height of about 1 meter, there are also 2 meters of cattail grass, but relatively rare. In May it is the flowering period of cattail grass, and in June-August it is the fruiting period, with brown spots on the peel and small nuts oval in shape.
Wild cattails are distributed in lakes, ponds, ditches, swamps, sometimes grow by the stream, but the water level along the creek is generally relatively low, there is very little cattail, there will be more rivers, we can also see this plant in Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and other regions, but the artificial cultivation of cattail grass is now relatively small.
So what else can it do besides being a mosquito coil? The first is that it can be used to feed pigs, and the treated cattail can also be used to make mattresses, which is a rare raw material. There are also flower lovers used to weave cushions, futon cushion hook method, up 6 stitches short needles, a circle of hooks, and then use the same method to hook another piece, leaving one side to fill the cotton.
In addition, cattail is also a good raw material for papermaking, pollen can be put into medicine, this pollen can be made into "pu huang" after processing, so the use of cattail grass is still a lot, for me when I was a child, cattail is a toy.
Have you ever seen this cattail grass?