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Bulrushes for your vase

18.11.2009 - 12:01 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Pedja river at Pakaste, Vooremaa.
 
Bulrushes or reedmaces have always been brought in to put in vases because they are so decorative, although during the Soviet period a fixed idea that bulrushes were a protected species swept Estonia like a mass psychosis and left the vases empty. Actually they have never been protected, they are no sensitive little things, and grow perfectly well even in polluted waters. Today this rapidly growing plant has even been cultivated as one possible green energy producer – bulrushes can be used for biogas.

In the old days the fluffy hairs around the seeds were used for filling in pillows, the leaves for insulation and the roots as food for pigs.

We have two bulrush species, the bulrush (Typha latifolia) and the lesser bulrush (Typha angustifolia) that is less common and has narrower leaves.


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