Hello,
Is the cattail another name for the bullrush/reedmace or is it a completely different plant?
Is the cattail another name for the bullrush/reedmace or is it a completely different plant?
Cattail?
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That's exactly what it is.
Bulrush, reedmace or cattail (Typha latifolia if you want to get all technical, yep I looked that up
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Tasty plant. Toot stock, pollen and young shoots all very nice.
david
Bulrush, reedmace or cattail (Typha latifolia if you want to get all technical, yep I looked that up
)Tasty plant. Toot stock, pollen and young shoots all very nice.
david
Interesting one this.....
The english name for this plant is/was greater reedmace, however when Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted "Moses in the Bulrushes" he painted a clump of reedmace (Typha latifolia) and not Bulrush(Scripus spp.). Due to this error the name became commonly accepted as the common name for the Typha spp.
The original Bulrush has since been renamed Clubrush.
Personally though, I like to call both plant by their original names.
And just to confuse things further, Cattail is a N. American name for Typha spp.
The english name for this plant is/was greater reedmace, however when Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted "Moses in the Bulrushes" he painted a clump of reedmace (Typha latifolia) and not Bulrush(Scripus spp.). Due to this error the name became commonly accepted as the common name for the Typha spp.
The original Bulrush has since been renamed Clubrush.
Personally though, I like to call both plant by their original names.
And just to confuse things further, Cattail is a N. American name for Typha spp.
