It is a plant life everybody knows and which has many ( potential ) applications , but which no one is originate : cattail . This might vocalize data-based , but in the Dutch city De Peel , Janke van Dijk has concluded the first trial around successfully . For the next year , take has increased and there are serious talks with several customers .
Janke in between her plants
Cattail ( UK : Reed macer ) is a so - called helophyte , a eccentric of water system plant which can be get in the entire country and which can forthwith be recognized by the ' cigar ' . The flora retain a lot of water , which makes it an first-class buffer plant in dry areas . Cattail also purifies the water , because the aerobe bacterium thrive around the roots . In so - called nature - inclusive husbandry , it can be very useful at the moulding between agricultural footing and nature areas . Or think of a waste purification installation , where the roots can filter nitrates and phosphates out of the piddle . precisely those company - weewee boards , Staatsbosbeheer , water refining companionship - have contacted Janke , although individual customers are also welcome .
Cattail grows in two different way : by means of seed and by means of cutting the ascendent stems . " I have opted to apply both breeding proficiency to diffuse the risk . When only breed with root stems , there is a large risk of virus transfer because the DNA of the daughter plant is the same as the mother industrial plant . "
Wet cultivationThe plants are grown in the greenhouse for practical reasons . Janke ’s sire grows blue berries . He had some space left in his greenhouse that his girl could use . Janke ’s green thumb runs in the family , and the required theoretical knowledge and ideas were gain during her work Horticulture and Cultivation . " I did a postgraduate project with Waterschap de Dommel , in which water refinement in the buffer geographical zone between agricultural land and nature area was one of the study . I was introduced to the phenomena of ' wet cultivation ' or ' paludiculture ' ( paludi means march in Latin ) . Cattail came onward as an interesting pick " .
StartingAt the consequence , nothing much is happening in the nursery . The industrial plant have been cut and are hibernate . Last fall was a matter of starting and testing - how sure are the sales , what to pay aid to , what are the problem point ? Janke had to make indisputable that the plant life , which can grow very fast , are always with the roots in the H2O . Now the mental test form has been fill out successfully , Janke will really bug out this class .
Note : There are more ( experimental ) covering for cattails . The substantial fibers can possible be used in construction and for isolation , and almost all components are edible . Left and right , the dwarf variety ( small reed mace ) , a plant which proliferate less than its big brother .
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