Edible : Leaves, Shoots, Rhizome, Root, Pollen, Pith, Vegetable, Flowers,
A tall reed-like plant. It grows in water and keeps growing from year to year. They grow up to 4.5 m high. They form dense thickets around swamps. The leaves are long and blade-like and enclosed in a sheath. They are grass-green. They grow in two opposite rows. The flowers are brown. They are produced in long cylindrical spikes. These look like sausages on spikes. These are up to 20 mm wide. The flowers are usually separated into male (above) and female (below) sections. When mature they turn into a mass of fluff.
It is a subtemperate plant. They grow in stagnant and slow moving water. It grows in wetlands. It needs wet soils and an open sunny position. It is resistant to frost. It can grow in arid places. In Argentina it grows below 100 m above sea level. Tasmanian Herbarium. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Common names : Bulrush, Cattail, Narrowleaf Cumbungi, Aanechondu, Aane jondu, Aapu, Akho, Ane jondu, Baaliyan, Cheena, Chi'na, Chiena, Dabbu-jammu, Ekho, Fapu', Ghabajario, Googol bon, Hati ghah, Hogla, Jammu, Jammugaddi, Jangli-bajri, Jwi'na, Kai, Kaw, Kaylampa, Kundar, Lesser cats tail, Lookh, Malo, Maranda, Maribala, Ngallowayn, Panjabris, Pankanis, Pario, Patera, Pitz, Pun, Poorteetch, Puwarji, Reedmace, Sambu, Taboa, Tabua, Totora, Tule, Wana-yuk, Wa'na, Wonga,
Synonyms :
Typha angustifolia L. var. domingensis (Pers.) Griseb.;
Typha angustata Bory & Chaub.;
Typha australis Schum. & Thonn.;