#cyperus

Radial

Sharp spikes

of Cyperus

放射状

カヤツリソウの

鋭い穂

Hmmm the only future stuff related to Prospect was these

And bout the topie's evil route. It was never set in stone, just some....interesting concept

His future is actually like this

Topie shall be happy and Cor too

Plant of the Day

Friday 25 October 2024

This container of Cyperus papyrus (papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Indian matting plant, Nile grass, paper reed) made both a statement and a division of space in a garden at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Hyde Hall, Essex. This tender aquatic perennial forms a clump of erect stems with rounded umbels of flowers and the plants will need to be moved under the protection of a frost-free glasshouse for winter.

AKA coastal cutty grass and toetoe upoko-tangata. Unlike the last sedge, this one is native to Aotearoa and the Kermadec Islands and is most common near water - overgrowing the geothermal stream, here. The Māori used it as material for kite-making.

AKA nutgrass, tall nutgrass, umbrella sedge, chufa, Earth almond, zula nuts, edible galingale and pale galingale.

Not particularly tall, but maybe it was a young plant.

Native to the West Coast and Southeast of North America, Jamaica, and South America, but introduced to many other areas where it can be invasive. A pest in ricefields. This one was growing on the shore of Lake Taupo, where volcanic sediments had been held together by algae, then fused together by mineral-rich hot water welling out from beneath the lake or from the hotwater streams flowing into the lake.