2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Swamp, or sitnyag, is most often found in damp areas - in wet meadows, in swamps and near water bodies. Sometimes it forms rather dense thickets. In nature, there are over one hundred and fifty species of this rather interesting plant. And the swamp grows in a huge number of regions of the world, although warm regions of distant South and North America, Europe, Asia, and also Australia are usually considered its homeland
Getting to know the plant
The marsh plant represents the Sedge family and is both an annual and a perennial. This graceful plant is endowed with creeping horizontal rhizomes (sometimes even with bulbs or tubers at the ends) and a huge number of single threadlike stems ranging in height from five centimeters to half a meter. These cylindrical stalks are equipped with internal septa and cavities, and small buds can be seen at their tips. The leaves of the marsh are either completely absent, or reduced to barely noticeable scales.
Small elliptical spikelets of the marsh marsh contain 3, 7 or 15 bisexual flowers. And almost rounded in cross-section, indistinctly triangular, whitish nut-fruits are endowed with transverse stripes and longitudinal ribs.
Among the most famous types of marsh marsh, it should be noted marsh marsh, hanging (often cultivated as a houseplant), acicular, papillary, single-scaled, ovate (by the way, this is the only annual among marshes) and pearl.
Using the swamp
Quite a large part of the varieties of this moisture-loving beauty is great for decorating streams and reservoirs in landscape design - the swamp gives them a natural look. In addition, she is able to create a magnificent backdrop for a huge number of other decorative marsh and aquatic plants.
The swamp is used both for strengthening the banks and as feed for cattle. And some of its species are considered weeds of rice crops.
A number of other varieties of this plant can be used in aquariums - a vivid example of this is the needle swamp, the thickets of which enrich the water with oxygen, purify it, and are also an excellent refuge for aquarium fish.
The beautiful swamp is also used as a bioindicator plant to determine the ecological state of all kinds of water bodies. It has also proven itself well as an anchor holding the bottom Riccia.
Sweet marsh is widely cultivated in China for its edible corms, thanks to which this plant is also called "Chinese water nut".
How to grow
Swamp is usually grown in shallow water or on damp soils. The most suitable will be silted, slightly acidic clay soils. It is extremely important to ensure that the soil does not dry out. You should also be aware that this plant is incredibly photophilous.
The swamp is planted most often on swampy sunny shores directly into the ground, the thickness of which should not exceed three centimeters, since the root system of this green pet is not particularly well developed. Sometimes the marsh plant is also planted in containers, which are allowed to be submerged under water to a depth of ten centimeters. The moisture-loving beauty growing in containers should be fed monthly with various complex fertilizers. And with the onset of winter, the containers in which the hanging swamp grows are transferred to winter in cool and rather bright rooms. It is noteworthy that relatively thermophilic varieties of this plant are usually grown in containers. And cold-resistant species grow well in shallow waters, as well as on well-moisturized low shores.
The wonderful swamp reproduces throughout the growing season by dividing plants or seeds. The layers formed from the mother bushes are quite easily separated and immediately transplanted to new places.
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