I wonder if you have noticed a special-looking plant when you often go to the river in summer. There is a wetland park near my home. In the summer, I will go to the wetland park with my family. When passing by a place with water, I can see a plant that looks like a sausage, becau

I don’t know if you have noticed a special-looking plant when you often go to the river in summer. There is a Wetland Park near my home. In the summer, I will go to the wetland park with my family. When passing by a place with water, I can see a plant that looks like a sausage, because it is really It was too much, so I didn’t feel particularly curious at the time. It wasn't until I discovered that many of my friends didn't know about this plant that I learned about it. Now I'll tell you about this plant. What's so mysterious about it?

About cattails

This plant that grows by the water and looks like a sausage is called cattails. Cattail belongs to the Typha family . It is a herbaceous plant that grows on water or mud, such as ponds, ditches, swamps, etc. Places with rivers and water sources are suitable for the growth of cattails. Incense recipes appear in many provinces in our country.

The rhizomes of cattails are milky white and thick, and become thinner as they grow upward. The appearance of cattails is brown and curved, and the growth and development period is from May to August.

Cattails are suitable for growing in water, and they like high temperatures and the sun, which is more conducive to their growth, so the growth temperature of cattails is about 15 to 30 degrees. Cattails do not have high requirements for planting soil. As long as there is fertile soil or deep mud, you can grow cattails, so growing cattails is not difficult.

What is the value of cattails?

1. Cattails are edible, mainly the young stems and leaves. Cattail can be fried and eaten. The method is to peel off the leaves of the cattail, take out the young shoots, place them in a pan and fry them in oil. The taste is very crisp.
2. Cattails also have medicinal value. Cattail has been recorded in ancient books for a long time, and it has very good medicinal value.
3. I wonder if anyone has ever used mattresses made from cattail grass? The fiber content of cattail grass is very high and its tensile strength is also very high. It is very suitable for making some daily necessities such as straw bags, straw mats and straw mats. Our country also has a base that specializes in breeding and cultivating cattails. These cattails are used as fiber materials . The plush on the female flowers of cattails can also be used as pillow wadding.
4. The reason why you can often see cattails in the park. The reason is also that cattails can improve the urban ecological environment. Cattails have the functions of preventing soil erosion and promoting soil development. They can also provide energy supplies for organisms in the water and enrich the biodiversity of the entire water area.
5. The second is the appearance characteristics of cattails, which are very cute. Many people treat cattails as gardening, so cattails also have the function of greening and embellishment. How to grow

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1. When choosing land, be sure to choose waterside or rivers with fertile soil.
2. In fertile soil, there is no need to add any fertilizer when planting cattails, and there is no need to carry out plowing and other planting methods. It can be said to be very simple.
3. After planting cattails, you need to change the area to plant cattails again after 3 to 4 years, because the land at that time is already tangled and not suitable for the growth of cattails.

Dear friends: Cattails look like "sausages". They are common near water and are a perennial herb. If you see it, remember that it has many values. It is a treasure all over its body. Don't eradicate it all.