Reed has so many alternative names, how many do you know?

Flowers & Gardening Jan 1, 1970 0 views

"Thick grow the reeds, the white dew turns to frost." The jianjia described in the Book of Songs is the reed. Reed is a tall perennial aquatic or hygrophytic grass, generally found beside irrigation ditches and on riverbank marshes, and it grows all over the world. The reed's stems stand upright, the plants are tall, swaying in the wind, full of wild charm.

Reed family and genus

Poaceae, genus Phragmites

Alternative names for reed

wei, lu, lu sun, jianjia, Latin scientific namePhragmites australias Trin

Reed distribution area

It grows all over the world, in low wetlands or shallow water such as beside irrigation ditches and on riverbank marshes. In China it is very widely distributed; the reed's reproductive capacity is relatively strong, and it easily forms continuous stretches of reed marsh.

Morphological characteristics of reed

Reed is aperennial plant of the grass family, with a very well-developed rhizome. The culm is upright, with20many nodes; the internodes at the base and upper part are shorter, and the longest internode is the4-6th node counting upward from the base of the stem, with a waxy bloom below the node. The edge of the ligule is densely covered with a ring of short cilia that fall off easily; the leaf blade is lanceolate-linear, hairless on the surface, with the tip gradually tapering into a thread-like form. The reed has a large panicle with many branches, and each branch bears dense, drooping spikelets; the caryopsis is about1.5mm long.

ReedGrowing environment

The reed's reproductive capacity is very strong, and it grows better where there is water. Reeds in North China generally sprout in early4month, then enter a period of vigorous growth, in8month they first head and then flower, and in10month the seeds mature, and the seeds can spread with the wind. The reed's rhizome is very well developed, and in natural habitats it mainly reproduces by rhizome; the rhizome has very strong vitality, and when it encounters suitable conditions it can quickly grow new shoots to reproduce.