ON THIS PLANT
Typha domingensis, known commonly as southern cattail or cumbungi, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Typha.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Typha
- Family
- Typhaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 5-12
- Mature Height
- 1.83 m to 3.66 m
- Mature Spread
- 1.83 m
- Leaf Color
- Light Green, Olive Drab
- Leaf Type
- Semi-evergreen
- Flower Color
- Brown
- Flower Size
- 2.54 cm
- Bloom Time
- Early summer, Mid summer
- Planting Time
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Harvest Time
- Late summer, Early fall, Mid fall
- Native Area
- Burkina Faso, Libya, Turkey, Guatemala, Madagascar, Montenegro, Pakistan, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Croatia, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Fiji, Uganda, Tanzania, Benin, Paraguay, Jordan, Indonesia, Haiti, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Suriname, Central African Republic, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Malawi, Tunisia, Honduras, Peru, Philippines, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Panama, Ukraine, Chad, China, Colombia, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Kazakhstan, Japan, Mongolia, Togo, El Salvador, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Iran, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Congo (DRC), Somalia, Egypt, Angola, Malaysia, Namibia, Rwanda, Eritrea, Yemen, Kenya, Niger, Uzbekistan, Russia, Uruguay, Mali, Iraq, Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Oman, Botswana, France, Congo, Chile, Tajikistan, South Africa, Sudan, Mauritania, Armenia, Zambia, Greece, Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Spain, Bolivia, Myanmar, Israel, Guyana, Nicaragua, Albania, Algeria, Turkmenistan
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Narrow-leaf cumbungi en Cattail en Lesser reed-mace en Reed-mace en Small bulrush en Southern Cat-Tail en Southern cattail en Elephant grass en Lesser Indian reed mace en Narrow leaf cat-tail en Totora en Tule cattail
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