![]() ![]() Fruit: Fruit Color: Brown/Copper Fruit Type: Achene Fruit Length: Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Loam (Silt) Sand Soil pH: Acid (Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Shrub Water Plant Wildflower Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Semi-evergreen Habit/Form: Arching Clumping Erect Growth Rate: Rapid Maintenance: Low Medium Texture: Fine.Attributes: Genus: Cyperus Species: prolifer Family: Cyperaceae Uses (Ethnobotany): Water plant Life Cycle: Perennial Recommended Propagation Strategy: Division Seed Country Or Region Of Origin: Africa Play Value: Buffer Easy to Grow.Tags: #evergreen #water garden #shrub #frost tender #sedge #dwarf #ornamental grass #wetlands #flower arrangements #pond margins #herbaceous #herbaceous perennials #pond garden #colonies #wildflower garden #marshes #wetland margins #dry soils intolerant #colonizing #drought intolerant #showy #grass #colony See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: ![]() Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: It not survive in dry or drought conditions. Ancient Egyptians used this variety to create writing canvases. In its native Madagascar, the dried culms are used for basket-weaving. The fruits of a non-cultivated plant have one seed per achene that is dispersed by water and wind. In addition to its filtering of wet areas, it will also add a pleasing, decorative element to the landscape.Ĭultivated varieties seldom produce fruits. Spreading by it shoots that emerge in wet soils, it will quickly establish a colony where the root system will help to filter the water and thereby keep the water clean. It will spread by rhizomes but is easy to manage.ĭuring its growing season, culms are produced from the growing tip of each rhizome producing a cluster of grass-like flower spikelets. It must be keep moist or grown in standing water. Preferring full sun or light to partial shade, it can be used in water gardens or as a houseplant. One of its common names, Dwarf Papyrus, refers to its resemblance to that plant in a dwarf habit. While Cyperus translates to sedge, prolifer means 'increasing by production of side-shoots', which is how this plant spreads to form colonies. The Latin name Cyperus prolifer describes this plant to a tea. Other fibres replaced it in the 8th and 9th centuries.Phonetic Spelling sy-PEER-us PRO-leef-er Description It became one of Egypt's biggest exports due to state monopoly closely guarding the secrets of manufacture. Other Species: 600 species in the Cyperus genus.Ĭomments: This is the papyrus of ancient Egypt, first used to make paper around 5,000 years ago. Maintenance: Thin out and remove dead foliage, otherwise it is self-sufficient. Soil: Wet, wet, wet - can be grown in tubs providing there's enough moisture.Ĭhoose a sunny location, though some shade throughout the day will be well tolerated. Now a rare plant in the Nile Delta, it is considered invasive in Florida. ![]() This was the material first collected to make paper, while also being used to make sandals, mats, baskets, fencing, rope and boats. It is immensely elegant if you have the space to view it at a distance over water. ![]() It produces tiny brown flowers in summer and will grow in water if you choose. Cyperus papyrus or the Egyptian Paper Plant is a clump forming, water loving, perennial with long reed like stems with feathery plume heads of foliage on top. ![]()
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